Updated American Standard Version
Giving Bible readers what God said not what translators think God meant
Textual criticism of the New Testament is the identification of textual variants. or different versions of the New Testament, whose goals include identification of transcription errors, analysis of versions, and attempts to reconstruct the original text.
WHNU reads καὶ καλέσουσιν τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Ἐμμανουήλ (and they shall call his name Immanuel). This is supported by the...
Why do people feel compelled to end with this assertive doxology? Probably for the same reason that motivated some early scribes to add it.
The more difficult or awkward reading is often preferable. The reading at first will seem to be more difficult or awkward to understand, but after further investigation, it will be discovered that a scribe deliberately or mistakenly changed the text to an easier reading.
This textual variant would be listed as a significant one. Textual scholar Daniel Wallace writes, “A textual variant is simply any difference from a standard text (e.g., a printed text, a particular manuscript, etc.) that involves spelling, word order, omission, addition, substitution, or a total rewrite of the text.”
Papyrus 22 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by P22, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John, only containing extant John 15:25-16:2, 21–32. The manuscript has been paleographically assigned to 200-250 A.D.
The TR WH NU reading above is supported by much more weightier witnesses P1א B C L W (f) 33 and this alone means that it …
There are several copyists in various manuscripts, who attempted to harmonize Matthew with 1 Chronicles 3:15-16 by adding another person to the genealogy, some even marking it as an insertion, letting readers know it was not original. Between Josiah and Jeconiah we find ...
The province of Textual Criticism is the ascertainment of the true form of a literary work, as originally composed and written down by its author.
Karl Konrad Friedrich Wilhelm Lachmann (German: [ˈlaxman]; 1793 –1851) was a German philologist and textual scholar. He is particularly noted for his foundational contributions to the field of New Testament Textual Studies.