Michael Patton put up A Brief Primer on Textual Criticism last week without my knowledge. He didn’t know that I wanted to begin something of a series on this topic....

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Manuscript Discoveries from Summer 2007 Expeditions

Dear friends, A different sort of blog this time, but one I can hardly keep to myself. As many of you know, the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts...

by C Michael Patton

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Text Criticism

Theology

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What if we found the original New Testament but did not know it? (Part 2)

These four criteria reveal that absolutely no original New Testament manuscripts have been discovered. So, let’s do a little speculating. What if some manuscripts were...

by Dan Wallace

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New Testament

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What If We Found The Original New Testament But Did Not Know It?

Â Scholars today often note that the original New Testament disappeared long ago. Although late in the second century, Tertullian speaks confidently of the originals still...

by Dan Wallace

Bibliology

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Has God Preserved the Scriptures? It Depends… (Part 2)

In my last blog, I noted that the standard doctrine of preservation assumes that the text is accessible by God’s people down to the very words and down through the ages....

by Dan Wallace

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Ecclesiology (Church)

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Has God Preserved the Scriptures? . . . (Part 1)

Many Christians believe in what they would call “the doctrine of preservation.” What they mean by this is that God has preserved the scriptures. More sophisticated expressions...

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Historical Renewal Friday: Lobegott Tischendorf

Provided by Â D.A. LaGue [display_podcast]Â In 1841, a young scholar sent a letter to his fiancÃ©e, â€˜I am confronted with a sacred task,â€™ he wrote, â€˜the struggle to...

by D.A. LaGue

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Evangelicalism

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Is the Bible a “Paper Pope” for Protestants?

On the first of March, 1516, the first published Greek New Testament, Erasmus’s Novum Instrumentum, rolled off the printing press. Almost exactly twenty months later the...

by Dan Wallace

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Our Last Working Day on Patmos

Today was supposed to be a melancholy day for us: saying goodbye to the Monastery of St. John the Theologian. But we were too rushed to be very melancholy. We will have one...

by Dan Wallace

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Patmos Update

Weâ€™ve been on Patmos now for over a week and have taken over 7000 hi-res digital photographs of Greek New Testament manuscripts. These are housed in the Monastery of St....

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