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Textual criticism

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684. How Does Textual Criticism Work?

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Myths and Mistakes in New Testament Textual Criticism Peter Gurry

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What is TEXTUAL CRITICISM? What does TEXTUAL CRITICISM mean? TEXTUAL CRITICISM meaning

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The Gospel of Q? Textual Criticism and Biblical Reliability.

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How can you trust the New Testament when the original manuscripts are different?

Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants in either manuscripts or printed books. Scribes can make alterations when copying manuscripts by hand. Given a manuscript copy, several or many copies, but not the original document, the textual critic might seek to reconstruct the original text as closely as possible. The same processes can be used to attempt to reconstruct intermediate versions, or recensions, of a document's transcription history. The objective of the textual critic's work is a better understanding of the creation and historical transmission of texts. This understanding may lead to the production of a "critical edition" containing a scholarly curated text.
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    • Basic notions and objectives 

    • Process 

    • Eclecticism 

    • Stemmatics 

    • Best-text editing 

    • Copy-text editing 

    • Application to religious documents 

    • Classical texts 

    • Legal protection 

    • Digital textual scholarship 

    • Critical editions