What happens when New Testament manuscripts disagree? For example, should John 7:53-8:11 and Mark 16:9-20 be considered "Scripture"? Should Mark 9:29 say, "prayer and fasting" or just "prayer"? What do we do when some manuscripts of the New Testament have one reading, and other manuscripts have a different reading? How do scholars determine which was the original reading? In this episode, Pastors Brandon and Zac give a basic overview into textual criticism.
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Podcasts
The Coherence-Based Genealogical Method by Reformed Forum
Myths and Mistakes in New Testament Textual Criticism by Museum of the Bible
What is New Testament Textual Criticism? by The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts
From Scrolls to Scrolling: Scripture, Technology, and the Word of God by Museum of the Bible
Articles
Textual Criticism: What It Is And Why You Need It by Brandon Crowe
On The King James Only Movement, The Majority Text, And Text Criticism by R. Scott Clark
Nestle-Aland 28: The New Standard in Critical Texts of the Greek New Testament by Daniel Wallace
Can We Still Believe the Bible? by Daniel Wallace
Doing Internal Evidence First in Textual Criticism by Daniel Wallace
Do We Have the Original Text? Some Optimism in Textual Criticism by Michael Kruger
The Heresy of Orthodoxy: Was the NT Text Reliably Transmitted? by Michel Kruger
Books
The Early Text of the New Testament by Michael Kruger
Canon Revisited: Establishing the Origins and Authority of the New Testament Books by Michael Kruger
The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration by Bruce Metzger
A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament by Bruce Metzger
The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts, (Volume 1-2) by Philip Comfort and David Barrett
A Commentary on the Manuscripts and Text of the New Testament by Philip Comfort
"The Greek Language and Textual Criticism" in Going Deeper With New Testament Greek by Andreas Kostenberger, Benjamin Merkle, and Robert Plummer
The Heresy of Orthodoxy by Andreas Kostenberger and Michael Kruger
