“Hundreds of thousands” of variants reflects abundant manuscripts; most differences are trivial, and key readings are recoverable by early evidence.
Does the Bible Really Contain Hundreds of Thousands of Textual Variants?
Codex Washingtonianus and Its Mixed Text of the Gospels
Codex Washingtonianus preserves a mixed Gospel text, combining Alexandrian, Western, and Byzantine elements, and through its unique readings helps clarify the original wording of the Gospels.
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.
