From Dead Sea Scrolls to Masoretic codices, the manuscripts show a carefully guarded Hebrew text, with only minor variants and no loss of doctrinal truth.
What Does the Manuscript Evidence Show About Old Testament Text Preservation?
Assessing Textual Confidence in the Old Testament Text: How Many Variants Are ‘Safe’?
Most Old Testament variants are minor and harmless; only a tiny fraction affect wording, and none overturns the theology preserved in the Masoretic Text.
