would be achieved, and all the textual critic would be left to do would be to plot where manuscripts preserved that original and where each went wrong. But such a find has not happened yet. b) Each author published only one version of his work. There are complicating factors if literary critics can build up a good case for believing that Luke issued two different editions of his Book of Acts. But, in general, we may legitimately assume that each of the NT books was originally published in one Finalized