Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus are early, extensive witnesses whose scribal features and agreements with papyri anchor the documentary text.
Understanding the Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus: A Deep Dive
Papyrus 66 and Its Witness to the Johannine Text
Papyrus 66, an early second-century codex of John, reveals a largely Alexandrian text and proves that the Johannine Gospel was stable and widely used soon after composition.
The Role of Exemplar Quality in Transmission Accuracy of the Greek New Testament Texts
Exemplar quality shaped New Testament transmission at every stage, and the early Alexandrian exemplar lines, especially those behind P75 and B, preserved the text with exceptional accuracy.
Why Documentary Evidence Is Central to Recovering the Original Text
Documentary evidence—especially P75 and B—anchors the earliest text. Internal criteria explain, not overrule, what the best early Greek witnesses attest.
Bart D. Ehrman’s Textual Criticism: Misrepresentation, Misinformation, and Scholarly Duplicity
Bart Ehrman misleads lay readers about New Testament textual criticism by overstating uncertainty while acknowledging stability among scholars.
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.
Guardians of the New Testament: Literacy, Power, and the Copyists of The New Testament
How literate were early Christians, and who preserved their books? A deep dive into readers, lectors, scribes, and the documentary evidence that guarded the text.
