BOOK DESCRIPTION
MAJOR NEW TESTAMENT TEXTUAL CRITICISM SOURCES: Manuscripts, Versions, and Patristic Citations
This volume brings the reader face to face with the actual historical evidence that stands behind the New Testament text. Rather than treating textual criticism as an abstract or speculative enterprise, it grounds the discussion in real manuscripts produced by real scribes within living memory of the apostles. The result is a work that replaces uncertainty with documentation and replaces theory-driven doubt with verifiable data.
 
Drawing directly from the manuscripts, versions, and patristic citations, this book demonstrates that the New Testament was transmitted with remarkable care from the beginning. The manuscript evidence reveals a text that was copied, circulated, and preserved across the Mediterranean world long before the rise of medieval traditions or ecclesiastical standardization. Far from being fluid or unstable, the New Testament text shows a recognizable and consistent form at a surprisingly early date.
 
Written for readers who want substance rather than slogans, this work challenges the widespread assumption that modern scholars must reconstruct the New Testament from fragments of uncertainty. Instead, it shows that the original wording can be recovered with confidence when the documentary evidence is allowed to speak for itself. The focus remains firmly on history, manuscripts, and method, not ideology or conjecture.
 
Major New Testament Textual Criticism Sources is an invitation to engage the foundations of the New Testament text as it actually exists in the manuscript tradition. It affirms that careful, evidence-based textual criticism does not weaken confidence in Scripture but strengthens it by anchoring the text in demonstrable historical reality.
 
BOOK DETAILS
Publisher: ‎ Christian Publishing House
Publication Date: ‎ December 14, 2025
Language: ‎ English
Print Length: ‎ 393 pages
ISBN-13: ‎ 979-8278654438
Item Weight: ‎ 1.38 pounds
Dimensions: ‎ 6 x 0.81 x 9 inches
 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
EDWARD D. ANDREWS (AS in Criminal Justice, BS in Religion, MA in Biblical Studies, and MDiv in Theology) is CEO and President of Christian Publishing House. He has authored over 220+ books. In addition, Andrews is the Chief Translator of the Updated American Standard Version (UASV).