Today we move from learning about manuscripts and textual criticism to actually doing textual criticism.  I’ve chosen two well-known corruptions to illustrate the process of textual criticism: 1 Timothy 3.16 and 1 John 5.7.  In each of these cases scribes have altered the text of scripture and we have the manuscript evidence to show exactly what happened.

—— Books ——

• New Testament Text and Translation Commentary by Philip W. Comfort
• Textual Commentary of the Greek New Testament by Bruce Metzger
• The NET Bible with 60,932 Translators’ Notes (online here)
• The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture by Bart Ehrman
• Revisiting the Corruption of the New Testament by Daniel Wallace et al.
• The King James Only Controversy by James White

—— Links ——

• Read my more thorough treatment of 1 John 5.7-8: “The Story behind the Comma Johanneum“
• For background on textual criticism see part 10 New Testament Textual Criticism as well as 6 Greek New Testament Papyri, 7 Greek New Testament Uncials, and 8 Other New Testament Manuscripts
• Check out all the lectures in How We Got the Bible
• See what other classes are available here or on the Restitutio Classes podcast (subscribe in Apple, Spotify, RSS feed)
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