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New Testament Text and Translation Commentary: Commentary on the Variant Readings of the Ancient New Testament Manuscripts and How They Relate to the Major English Translations is unavailable, but you can change that!

This commentary is especially useful for pastors and teachers who know that the members of their audiences use a variety of different English versions. It is also a helpful tool for serious students of the Bible, including laypeople and seminary students. In addition to this passage-by-passage commentary, the reader is introduced to the art of textual criticism, its importance for studying the...

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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