Daniel Wallace — The Basics of New Testament Textual Criticism
Dr. Daniel Wallace’s highly recommended video course on New Testament textual criticism—there's really no better resource for learning about textual criticism. Textual Criticism remains today as one of the most overlooked disciplines in Biblical studies. In this collection, Dr. Daniel B. Wallace of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM) teaches people from the lay to the scholarly level about the basic principles and practices of New Testament Textual Criticism (NTTC). Dr. Wallace defines New Testament Textual Criticism and discusses topics like identifying textual variants, categorizing manuscripts, and interpreting the available evidence.
• What is New Testament Textual Criticism
• An Embarrassment of Riches
• The Practice of NT Textual Criticism Pt. 1 External Evidence
• The Practice of NT Textual Criticism Pt. 2 Internal Evidence
• External & Internal Evidence Combined Revelation 1:4
• External & Internal Evidence Matthew 27:16–17
• Another Textual Problem Romans 5:1
• Defining a Textual Variant
• The Number of Textual Variants
• The Nature of Textual Variants
• The Classification of NT Manuscripts by their Contents
• Categories of Greek NT Manuscripts
• Categories of Non-Greek Witnesses to the NT
• The Value and Problems with the Versions
• The Value and Problems of Church Fathers
This is a complex issue that actually does have to do with cosmic geography and even more so, the denial of Elisha’s status as the prophet of Yahweh and as a solicitation to Elisha to play the role of an apostate priest, to join the apostate worship, to join the other gods, to be part of that system instead of Yahweh's system, to not be Yahweh’s prophet. This is a theologically significant passage. That answer might sound strange to you but it is tied up in this cosmic geographical thinking and cosmic geographical language. Article Referenced: 1. Going Down to Bethel: Elijah and Elisha in the Theological Geography of the Deuteronomistic History (Joel Burnett)
Predestination and foreknowledge aren’t the same. Foreknowledge does not necessitate predestination. In 1 Samuel 23:1–13 it’s clear, God foreknew a possible outcome that never actually happens—foreknowledge does not command that it’s predestined to happen. In other words, the means by which God works are His own—God can predestine things if He wants, but we cannot conclude that everything that happens was predestinated. We cannot exist as God’s own image if everything is predestined (Genesis 1:27). Free will (what we choose) matters, although we may not know how it matters exactly—God is omniscient and God will use it—only God knows such things. If everything is predestined, we would have no free will and we would simply be robots. This is why God does not eliminate evil just yet. In doing so, God would have to eliminate all of humanity as well as everything else in the spiritual world having free will. God is omniscient and knows what the cost is going to be. He would rather ...
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