Minuscule 1739 is a tenth-century manuscript whose Pauline text preserves a far older and highly valuable line of transmission.
Minuscule 1739: A Tenth-Century Witness Preserving an Ancient Pauline Text Type
Family 1739 in the Pauline Epistles: Affinity with P46 and Early Alexandrian Witnesses
Family 1739 preserves an ancient Pauline text and repeatedly confirms the early Alexandrian line represented by P46, Vaticanus, and Sinaiticus.
Matthew 16:2b–3a and the Secondary Red Sky Saying in the Manuscript Tradition
Matthew 16:2b–3a is a secondary interpolation, added to clarify Jesus’ reply and influenced by Luke 12:54–56 rather than written by Matthew.
Magadan, Not Magdala: The Documentary Priority of the Harder Reading in Matthew 15:39
Matthew 15:39 preserves “Magadan,” not “Magdala,” because the earliest and strongest witnesses support the harder reading.
Matthew 15:31 and the Reading “the Mute Speaking”: A Documentary Textual Commentary
Matthew 15:31 most likely originally read “the mute speaking,” a vivid and publicly observable miracle that led the crowd to glorify the God of Israel.
Blind Guides and Scribal Harmonization in Matthew 15:14
Matthew 15:14 most likely read “they are blind guides,” with “of the blind” added later to harmonize the first clause with the second.
Decoding the Secrets of the Codex Claromontanus
Codex Claromontanus reveals how Paul’s letters were copied, expanded, translated, and restored through careful textual criticism.
Introduction to New Testament Textual Studies
New Testament textual studies begins with manuscripts, not speculation, and recovers the original wording through disciplined analysis of the documentary evidence.
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.
