Manuscripts

“Hart makes some bold claims about the Greek New Testament that I want to subject to careful critique. In the long discussion that [David Bentley] Hart had with Wener, Hart says a number of things doctrinally speaking that I can’t in good conscience agree with. And he says some things that are hard to interpret with charity.” - Ward on Words

“Are textual variants in the Greek New Testament a new thing or an old one in the church? Should Christian disagreements over them cause division? Is one or more side in this dispute heretical?” - Ward on Words

Mark Ward and Scott Ingram discuss their points of agreement and disagreement on textual criticism, Textus Receptus, and the New King James version. - YouTube

Did the rediscovery of the ancient manuscripts Sinaiticus and Vaticanus really lead to massive changes in our Greek New Testaments? - Mark Ward

“These issues have not turned us into liberals…. our faith and our doctrine have been shaped by looking at what God has actually revealed and preserved for us.” - Mark Ward

“If the reports are accurate, then this 1,600-year-old fragment would be our oldest copy of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas—not to be confused with the so-called Gospel of Thomas. Neither text deserves to be called a Gospel” - AiG

“In delivering the words he wanted us to have, God chose the supernatural means of divine inspiration and inscripturation. In preserving the words he wanted us to have, God chose the providential means of human transmission and translation.” - P&D

“While exciting and important, much about a recently published, headline-grabbing fragment is not unique.” - Text & Canon

“An early papyrus containing texts from Matthew, Luke, and the Gospel of Thomas has now been published as one of the oldest fragments containing canonical material to survive the past two millennia.” - RNS

“A researcher from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, with the help of ultraviolet photography, was able to discover a small manuscript fragment of a Syriac translation written in the 3rd century and copied in the 6th century.” - Arkeonews