The Leningrad Codex preserves the complete Masoretic Hebrew Bible with vowels, accents, and Masorah, showing disciplined textual stability.
Casting Light on the Leningrad Codex: The Oldest Complete Hebrew Bible
Analyzing Ketiv and Qere: Scribal Notes in the Masoretic Text
Ketiv and Qere preserve the written consonants and the regulated reading tradition, revealing Masoretic integrity and textual stability.
Old Testament Textual Criticism: Principles and Practice
Old Testament textual criticism exists to restore the original words, using witnesses wisely and rejecting historical-critical theorizing.
The Theological Significance of Old Testament Textual Variants
Old Testament variants rarely change meaning; they invite precision, confirm textual stability, and support confident theology.
The Chronicler’s Text: An Insightful Look at the Books of Chronicles
Chronicles retells Israel’s history to restore covenant identity through temple-centered worship, Davidic legitimacy, and textual stability.
Targums and Peshitta: Aramaic Translations of Old Testament Texts
Aramaic Targums and the Syriac Peshitta illuminate how the Hebrew text was read, while chiefly confirming the stability of the Masoretic tradition.
Textual Accuracy And The Old Testament: A Historical Perspective
The Old Testament stands textually reliable through disciplined scribal preservation and evidence-based restoration, not miraculous immunity from variants.
Scribes and Language Use in the Graeco-Roman World
How scribes, education, and multilingual Greek registers in the Graeco-Roman world shaped copying habits and New Testament textual forms.
The Transition from Scroll to Codex in the Early Church: The Shift That Preserved the New Testament Text
The early Church’s adoption of the codex revolutionized Scripture preservation, enabling the faithful transmission of the New Testament text.
Inerrancy and New Testament Textual Criticism: How the Documentary Method and Early Alexandrian Witnesses Secure the Original Text
Early papyri and the documentary method show how the New Testament’s original, inerrant text is identifiable, stable, and historically recoverable.
