The New Testament’s handwritten transmission produced variants, yet the early and abundant manuscript evidence enables recovery of the original wording with confidence.
Introduction to the Text of the New Testament
The Significance of Nomina Sacra in New Testament Texts
Nomina sacra are early Christian sacred-name contractions that reveal scribal reverence, shape variant patterns, and aid documentary textual criticism.
Beyond the Canon: Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphical Writings in Old Testament Studies
How apocryphal and pseudepigraphical writings illuminate Old Testament language, history, and transmission without redefining Scripture.
Dissecting the Synoptic Problem through the Lens of Textual Criticism
A textual-critical approach reshapes the Synoptic discussion by prioritizing manuscripts, scribal habits, and early testimony over conjectured sources.
The Aleppo Codex: A Critical Examination of Its Significance for Textual Criticism
The Aleppo Codex exemplifies disciplined Masoretic preservation, functioning as a benchmark witness for the stabilized Hebrew text.
The Harmonization Phenomenon in Synoptic Gospels
Textual criticism clarifies the Synoptic Problem by exposing how harmonization in manuscript transmission distorts Gospel agreements.
Casting Light on the Leningrad Codex: The Oldest Complete Hebrew Bible
The Leningrad Codex preserves the complete Masoretic Hebrew Bible with vowels, accents, and Masorah, showing disciplined textual stability.
Preserving the Past: The Art and Science of New Testament Papyrology
New Testament papyrology unites conservation, imaging, paleography, and documentary textual criticism to preserve and read the earliest witnesses.
Manuscripts and Marginalia: Unraveling the Textual History of the Old Testament
Manuscripts and marginal notes reveal disciplined copying, stable transmission, and recoverable variants within the Old Testament’s textual history.
The Textual Evolution of the Old Testament: A Historical Approach
The Old Testament text was preserved through disciplined scribal transmission and refined by evidence-based comparison, not by miraculous copying.
