Archive for category: Textual Issues

   Some kind fellow believers provided a transcript of the Ehrman debate, which we are making available here. We hope...

   I got this idea, oh…a few minutes after the Ehrman debate was over? Thanks to Carla and Micah for...

   I would like to briefly reflect, hopefully for the last time on this particular topic, on Dr. Tommy Wasserman’s...

1) Do not attempt to offer a possible reason for why someone would completely misread your purpose and statement....

   Last week when a caller to The Dividing Line asked about resources on textual critical studies, I noted the...

Bart Ehrman has announced that a new edition of Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research is being...

The Ehrman debate will be a gold mine of quotes and topics for some time to come. Sadly, the...

Introduction: In listening to the debate, I think Ehrman provided a very good summary of his position in what...

Alan Kurschner reviewed a KJV Only article yesterday, and the author (who wrote his first post without having listened...

Kent Brandenburg has written some presumptuous comments on the White-Ehrman debate. He has made unsubstantiated claims about Dr. White’s...

   On January 30th, Joel McDurmon posted an article on the American Vision website regarding his attendance at my debate...

I wrote the following article for the American Vision website. It is the first of two replies to Joel...

No doubt most of you are already aware that the MP3s and Audio CD of the debate are available....

I wanted to drop a line before we head out to sea. I’ve been thinking about last night, and...

Turn on your television around the two major Christian holidays and a perennial stream of really smart people who...

   As most of you know, I am working now on the presentations I will be making next week in...

   I have begun creating my KeyNote presentations for the conference, debate, and cruise, and in the process came across...

Monday morning I posted two items on my ministry resources list at Amazon, both commentaries on John by Origen....

   I can’t help it. I really like Dan Wallace. One of my favorite memories of ETS in Orlando in...

The SillyBrit pointed me to another wonderful example of the “yeah, we are biased, we don’t care, its the...

A common myth that we hear from time to time from a number of different directions, is that Bibles...

   Today I will be joined by Alan Kurschner to discuss the textual variant at Luke 23:34. I have placed...

   CNN (probably among others) has been reporting that a team are currently in the process of taking high-resolution photographs...

It cannot be emphasized too strongly that the analysis of these views has been brief and cursory. There is...

If the various Byzantine positions represent the extreme documentary approach to textual criticism, relying mainly on external evidence, and...

As the name suggests, the Eclectic school differs from the various defenders of the Byzantine text in that it...

   The Byzantine-Priority position is often considered simply a further variant of the Majority Text position, especially by those who...

The Ecclesiastical Text position could be considered, in essence, a variation on the Textus Receptus position described in the...

   Zondervan has released its anticipated A Reader’s Hebrew Bible, the counterpart to their New Testament Reader’s Bible. I picked...

Textual scholars are unanimous in their agreement that textual criticism applied to the extant manuscripts is necessary if the...

When faced with the overwhelming task of evaluating the many New Testament manuscripts to determine the original reading of...