An in-depth documentary study of Acts textual variants, weighing major passages, manuscript evidence, and scribal habits to recover Luke’s original wording.
Why Acts Presents a Special Text-Critical Challenge
New Testament Textual Criticism: The Story of the Western Text
The Western text reveals how scribes expanded and paraphrased the New Testament, especially Acts, while earlier Alexandrian witnesses preserve the original wording.
The Textual Relationship Between the Pauline Epistles and the Acts of the Apostles
Acts supplies the historical framework of Paul’s mission, while the Pauline Epistles reveal its doctrinal depth, pastoral burden, and early textual transmission.
A Comprehensive Study of Textual Families in the New Testament
Textual families illuminate how the New Testament was copied, clustered, and preserved, guiding the restoration of the earliest attainable wording.
The Uncial Manuscripts: A Forgotten Treasure of the New Testament
Uncial codices preserve a vast, early, and testable New Testament text, bridging the papyri and minuscules with documentary force.
The Mystery of Codex Bezae: An Enigma in New Testament Textual Criticism
Codex Bezae (D) preserves a bilingual Western text that often expands and harmonizes, yet sometimes preserves ancient alternative readings in Luke–Acts.
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.
New Testament Textual Family Groupings and Their Documentary Value
The textual families of the New Testament reveal how the Alexandrian tradition preserves the earliest and most accurate form of the inspired Greek text.
The Age of the Critical Text: Westcott–Hort, von Soden, Local Texts, Alexandrian, Western, Caesarean, Byzantine, Gregory–Aland Numeration, and Modern Greek New Testament Editions
Early papyri and major codices anchor the Greek New Testament, defining the critical text from Westcott–Hort to NA28/UBS5 and clarifying Alexandrian, Western, and Byzantine streams.
The Transmission of the Text of the New Testament: History of the Handwritten Text and Types of Variants
Early papyri and Codex Vaticanus reveal a stable, early New Testament text. This article explains its transmission and the nature of textual variants.
