We’ve Never Found the Original Bible Manuscripts  🔗 **Source:** [We’ve Never Found the Original Bible Manuscripts]() ## Highlights - And so now really what textual criticism at least textual criticism in the Bible is mainly concerned with is trying to uh reconstruct the earliest recoverable form of a given text. - Note: The cautious target is the earliest form that surviving evidence can support. - Not a hard and fast rule, but just a trend. - Note: Text-critical principles describe tendencies, not automatic verdicts. - But it is it is a fun exercise to actually look at a text and be like, "Oh, wow. I can see now exactly how the scribe went about doing this." - Note: Comparing witnesses can expose a plausible copying mechanism behind a variant.