During the last third of the twentieth century in New Testament textual criticism, a small but growing number of students accept the theory that the original text is to be found in a majority of manuscripts. This revival of the Majority Text theory is multifaceted.
Looking at the manuscripts and copies of the New Testament, this article shows that the New Testament text has not been altered, and what is recorded is reliable.
This article discusses some matters of New Testament textual criticism: there is an abundance of existing manuscripts, the variants are mostly insignificant, and all doctrines are easily preserved in the midst of viable textual variants.
This the first article by this author on the principles of textual criticism. In the past, these principles have underminded the divine authorship of scripture through their aim to discover authorial intent. The author appeals for principles which honor the inspiration and inerrancy of scripture and its inerrancy.
This the second article by this author on the principles of textual criticism. In the past, higher criticism has tended to leave the Bible to human authorship only. The author here embraces the inerrancy, inspiration, and divine authorship of scripture.
The field of New Testament textual criticism was strongly influenced by the publication of Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus: The Story behind Who Changed the Bible and Why. The publication's main argument was that the early orthodox faith radically changed the text to conform to their views.
This article commemmorates the work of Richard Bentley on the history of the Greek text of the New Testament.
This article is an evaluation of the Greek New Testament, edited by Kurt Aland, Matthew Black, Bruce M. Metzger, and Allan Wikgren.
This article reviews Bart Ehrman's book on textual criticism, Misquoting Jesus. It introduces the field of textual criticism and Ehrman as a scholar.
Should the text in Romans 5:1 be read as an indicative or a subjunctive, that is, "ἔχομεν" or "ἔχωμεν"? Verbrugge wants to consider all the grammatical internal evidence to support the best text-critical decisions for this text.
