textual criticism
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Try to imagine this today: For almost a year, textual criticism was happening, and red-hot copies of The New York Review of Books flew off the newsstands.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2018
Which is a lot to ask of a book and more to ask of a play, as textual criticism tends to offer limited catharsis and thrills.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2017
From both seminaries and secular institutions, scholars are drawing on science, archaeology and modern textual criticism to write a chapter of Christianity that makes little mention of miracles except to reject them.
From Time Magazine Archive
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They concede the need for textual criticism, admit that many passages must be interpreted symbolically rather than literally.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A complete collection of all the fragments of the Sahidic New Testament is now the most pressing want in the province of textual criticism.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener