Textual criticism12/28/2022 ![]() ![]() How Useful Are Our Earliest New Testament Manuscripts? October 1, 2022.Is Christianity Responsible for Gender Equality and Consent? October 2, 2022.What’s It Like to Teach at a Research University? October 4, 2022.What Serious Research Projects Can Undergraduates Do in Early Christianity? October 5, 2022.A Major Forgery in the Hebrew Bible? Guest Post by Platinum Member Dennis Folds October 6, 2022.If you don’t belong yet, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? CHRISTMAS? THE REST OF THIS POST IS FOR MEMBERS ONLY. ![]() (In fact, it tries to reconstruct the text of the author even if we *have* the original. That is to say, it is the discipline that tries to establish what the original words were – or at least tries to decide which words to print if there are a variety of options. Instead, textual criticism is the discipline that seeks to reconstruct the text that an author wrote when we no longer have his or her original, but only later copies. Thus, if someone is engaged, for example, in the interpretation of a text, that is *not* “textual criticism.” The term does *not* simply mean “the study of texts” or “literary analysis of texts” or anything similar. Lay people often misuse the term, not knowing that it refers to a particular and highly specialized field of study. The first thing to emphasize is that the term “textual criticism” is a technical term with a very specific meaning. I now want to turn more fully to a discussion of the term “corruption,” and to do that I need to provide some basics about the general field of inquiry that the book is devoted to, the textual criticism of the New Testament. In discussing the background to my book The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture I have so far been talking about the issue of early Christian diversity, so as to explain what the term “orthodox” in the title means. ![]()
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