of wording among these manuscripts, textual critics must sort through their variant readings to reconstruct the original wording of the Greek New Testament. This process is called textual criticism. As defined by the Oxford Classical Dictionary, textual criticism is “the technique and art of restoring a text to its original state, as far as possible, in the editing of Greek and Latin authors” (1970, 1048). The discipline of textual criticism is necessary for all ancient works, such as Homer’s Iliad,
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