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Searching for God’s Word in New Testament Textual Criticism

… biblical text speak for itself, looking through the lens of restored truth. Some Latter-day Saints may fear that … of manuscripts are closest to the original. Concerning New Testament textual criticism in particular, no original

Quest for Origins

… to reveal something about the original text of the New Testament insofar as it can be proven that it restores or … Latina should be only marginally valuable because of its origins as a free text originating from an immediate need …

Principles of New Testament Textual Criticism

… Latter-day Saints would sympathize with the primary goal of New Testament textual criticism: to reconstruct the original text …

The King James Bible in the Days of Joseph Smith

… At the time of Joseph Smith's birth in English-speaking America, the King … By the time of the Prophet's death, however, the idea of new translations had entered the American consciousness. The … historians and linguists had come to believe that the New Testament in the King James Version was based on Greek …

Textual Criticism and the New Testament

… Simply stated, New Testament textual criticism is the practice of attempting to recover the earliest attainable text and is …

New Testament Manuscripts, Textual Families, and Variants

… I went to the Trinity College Library to see the Book of Kells. Arguably the most famous illuminated vellum Latin manuscript of the New Testament, it dates to the eighth century AD. On that same …

Joseph Smith's New Translation of the Bible, 1830

… Manuscript page from Joseph Smith's New Translation. (Used by permission, Library-Archives, Community of Christ.) As January dawned in the year 1830, the Prophet … thirty-four hundred verses—to about thirteen hundred Old Testament verses and twenty-one hundred New Testament verses. …

Scholarly Books on the New Testament

… study. Photo by Richard Crookston As a scholar of the New Testament, I am often asked which books on the New Testament … the theory that Christianity grew largely from Jewish origins. [22] Although only available in German, Hermann …

How New Testament Variants Contribute to the Meaning of the Sermon on the Mount

… document copied and transmitted over a long period, the New Testament has a fascinating and complicated textual history. … an ancient language (Greek) that is itself a translation of another ancient language (Aramaic). Therefore, the reader …

Manuscripts and Scribes

… a Bible , by Sutcliffe Maudsley, Nauvoo, 1844. Courtesy of L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young … and preserve much information about the process. [1] The New Translation was written on sheets of paper about sixteen … sheets with writing on both sides). [2] There are two Old Testament manuscripts: Old Testament Manuscript 1 (OT1) and …