Many have asked by email and social media, “In studying the modern Bible translations, I have come across some verses that are left out but
Category: NT Textual Criticism Articles
The Transmission Quality of the Early Text of the Greek New Testament
It is true that the first three centuries of copying New Testament Greek manuscripts were “free,” in that scribes often took liberties with the manuscript they were copying from, chaotic copying of the texts, a period of copying that was in a state of flux by scribes who did not value what they were copying? Herein lies the truth.
JOHN BROWN OF HADDINGTON: Motivational Story for Christians
A. T. Robertson, the great Greek grammarian as well as a textual critic and general student of the New Testament, tells the following story about
FRAGMENTS OF TRUTH: 500 Thousand Papyrus Texts Were Accidentally Discovered in Egypt
A great question was recently asked on our New Testament Textual Criticism Facebook group. “James D.G. Dunn says 90-95% of the findings of Oxyrhynchus have
Newly Discovered Christian Letter Dating to about 230 A.D.
Egypt played a significant role in early Christianity. Not only was there a longstanding Jewish population in Egypt but early Christianity saw a significant number
ONE SLAVE ALTERS THE THINKING OF SECULAR HISTORIANS WHICH BEGS THE QUESTION: WHAT ABOUT THE READING CULTURE OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY?
Omar ibn Said was a writer and Islamic scholar, born and educated in what is now Senegal in West Africa, who was enslaved and transported
