This episode we dig into how scholars actually reconstruct the earliest recoverable form of the biblical text: why there's no original manuscript of any biblical book, what a credit-card-sized scrap of John can and can't tell us, and how a single letter in John 1:18 turns a unique Son into a unique God.
Plus, Erasmus back-translating Revelation out of Latin, the verses your Bible quietly dropped, and the paragraph of Samuel that the Dead Sea Scrolls handed back to us.
Interview:
0:45 This week: textual criticism
1:59 KJV onlyism pushes back
3:11 Truth versus certainty
4:08 The KJV's own textual criticism
5:01 It started with Homer
6:00 The earliest recoverable text
7:17 No originals survive
8:33 The Hebrew Bible gap
10:17 Qumran and Origen's Hexapla
11:50 Erasmus and seven manuscripts
14:03 When it became a science
14:27 The harder reading wins
15:49 John 1:18: Son or God
20:00 The shorter reading rule
21:12 Griesbach, Lachmann, and after
23:40 The 1881 Revised Version
25:33 Verses added later
26:38 Diplomatic versus eclectic
28:48 Haplography and dittography
31:43 A lost paragraph in Samuel
32:52 Conjectural emendations
33:53 Wrap-up and thanks
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