New Testament textual studies begins with manuscripts, not speculation, and recovers the original wording through disciplined analysis of the documentary evidence.
Introduction to New Testament Textual Studies
The New Testament in the Light of Textual Criticism: The Gospel of Matthew
A documentary reading of Matthew shows that early manuscripts preserve a concise, stable text while later scribes often harmonized, clarified, and expanded it.
The Legacy of the Codex Regius in New Testament Textual Criticism
Codex Regius matters because it preserves a later yet valuable Gospel witness that often supports the Alexandrian line while exposing secondary expansions.
Untangling the Textual Complexities of the Pastoral Epistles
A documentary untangling of the Pastoral Epistles shows real textual complexity, but not textual chaos, and confirms a stable, recoverable Pauline text.
Tracing the Transmission: The Journey of the New Testament Text Through the Centuries
A documentary history of how the New Testament text was copied, varied, preserved, and restored from the autographs to modern Greek editions.
The Role of Colophons in Early New Testament Manuscripts
Colophons in New Testament manuscripts reveal scribes, readers, exemplars, and provenance, but they remain secondary to the text itself.
New Testament Textual Criticism: Navigating the Byzantine-Majority Text Debate
Why the Byzantine-Majority Text debate fails when early manuscript evidence, textual history, and the Alexandrian witnesses are weighed properly.
Why Acts Presents a Special Text-Critical Challenge
An in-depth documentary study of Acts textual variants, weighing major passages, manuscript evidence, and scribal habits to recover Luke’s original wording.
Fragments of Truth: The Value of Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1 for the Gospel of Thomas
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1 is valuable because it dates Greek Thomas, exposes its textual fluidity, and shows its dependence on earlier gospel tradition.
On the Trail of the Original Text: New Testament Textual Criticism and Archaeology
Archaeology and manuscripts reveal how the New Testament was copied, dated, and restored through early papyri, codices, and disciplined textual criticism.
