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Textual criticism

Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts (mss) or of printed books. Such texts may range in dates from the earliest writing in cuneiform, impressed on clay, for example, to multiple unpublished…

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related to Bibliography · 262
Textual criticism → Aland, Albertus Frederik Johannes, Alexey, America, American Literature, Amsterdam, An Inquiry, An Interlinear Collation, An Introduction, Archived, Barbara, Bart, Bentham, Berlin, Bible, Bibliography, Biological, Blackwell Pub, Bowers, Bradley
related to Further reading · 46
Textual criticism → Biblical Criticism, Clarendon Press, Classical Association, Donald, Eldon, Epp, Handbook, Harold, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard Ukrainian Studies, Icelandic Manuscripts, III, ISBN, JSTOR, July, Kendall, Linguistic Computing, Literary, Love, March
related to history · 24
Textual criticism → Although, BC, Bible, Constantine, Desiderius Erasmus, Donation, Early, Gospels, Greek, Greek New Testament, Hellenistic Alexandria, In Italy, Interest, Latin, Lorenzo Valla, Many, Middle Ages, Petrarch, Poggio Bracciolini, Quran
related to Book of Mormon · 22
Textual criticism → Although, At, Book, BYU Professor Ellis Rasmussen, Holy Scriptures, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, Larson, Latter-day Saints, LDS, LDS Church, Many, Mormon, Oliver Cowdery, One, Original Manuscript, Printer, Printer's Manuscript, Rasmussen, Stanley
related to General · 21
Textual criticism → An, Archived, Aristotelis De Anima, Authority, Better Text, Bible, Chinese, Close, Commentarium, How, III Critical Edition, Information TheoryComputer-assisted, List, Mario Tonelotto, Parvum, ReviewThe European Society, Society, StemmaticsStemmatics, Textual Scholarship, Walter Burley
related to Canons of textual criticism · 13
Textual criticism → Among, Another, Bengel's, Greek New Testament, In, Johann Albrecht Bengel, Johann Jakob Griesbach, Lectio, New Testament, One, Proclivi, This, Various
related to overview · 10
Textual criticism → Having, If, Karl Lachmann, Latin, Relations, Stemmatics, That, The, The Ancient Greek, This
related to Process · 10
Textual criticism → An, At, Before, In, Instead, It, Printed, Since, The, When
related to Quran · 10
Textual criticism → AD, Amongst Muslims, Arabic, In, In Islamic, Muhammad, Muhammad's, Muslims, Quran, Textual
related to Primary Chronicle · 9
Textual criticism → Bygone Years, Old East Slavic, Povest, Pověstĭ, Primary Chronicle, PVL, Tale, Textual, This

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Textual criticismis abranch of textual scholarship0.90text
Textual criticismis arelatively new branch of textual criticism working with digital tools to establish a critical edition0.90text
Petrarchinstance ofscholars0.80text
Poggio Bracciolini collectedinstance ofscholars0.80text
edited many Latin manuscriptsinstance ofscholars0.80text
while a new spirit of critical enquiry was boosted by the attention to textual statesinstance ofscholars0.80text
for example in the work of Lorenzo Valla on the purported Donation of Constantineinstance ofscholars0.80text
Greek plays presumably had one originalinstance ofAlthough texts0.80text
the question of whether some biblical booksinstance ofAlthough texts0.80text
like the Gospelsinstance ofAlthough texts0.80text
ever had just one original has been discussedinstance ofAlthough texts0.80text
Textual criticismrelated to BibliographyAland0.60section

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