Skeptical Textual Criticism
Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2016 8:26 am
JW:
This will be the companion Thread to a new blog I am starting which will be devoted to Skeptical Textual Criticism. I see the current state of Textual criticism as overly informal on both sides due to under developed criteria. Believers tend to over emphasize External evidence while Skeptics emphasize The Difficult Reading Principle and minimize all other types of evidence without adequately explaining why.
The current book on the subject is:
Fundamentals of New Testament Textual Criticism
by Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts (PP).
The first thing to consider is that PPs are Believers so Skeptical Buyer Beware as the clearest relationship known in Textual Criticism is the relationship between level of belief and Conclusion. To their credit PP lament in their introduction that the current and historical record of Textual Criticism is severely lacking in well defined criteria and methodology. So let's start with PP's identification and weighting of criteria. This can be found in their Kindle version starting at Location 2250 Chapter 8 Methodology (2) Weighing External Evidence
Joseph
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This will be the companion Thread to a new blog I am starting which will be devoted to Skeptical Textual Criticism. I see the current state of Textual criticism as overly informal on both sides due to under developed criteria. Believers tend to over emphasize External evidence while Skeptics emphasize The Difficult Reading Principle and minimize all other types of evidence without adequately explaining why.
The current book on the subject is:
Fundamentals of New Testament Textual Criticism
by Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts (PP).
The first thing to consider is that PPs are Believers so Skeptical Buyer Beware as the clearest relationship known in Textual Criticism is the relationship between level of belief and Conclusion. To their credit PP lament in their introduction that the current and historical record of Textual Criticism is severely lacking in well defined criteria and methodology. So let's start with PP's identification and weighting of criteria. This can be found in their Kindle version starting at Location 2250 Chapter 8 Methodology (2) Weighing External Evidence
Joseph
You Might Be An Antisemite