Jeremy Thompson

Tag: Textual Criticism

  • Pope Pius XII on the Importance of Textual Criticism

    I’ve posted on textual criticism for the past two days.  This will probably be the last post on the topic for a while.  Yesterday, I posted on video I used in attempting to show my students the importance of textual criticism.  I also used this quote from Pope Pius XII in Divino Afflante Spiritu to…

  • The song that might not be or the importance of textual criticism – (VFTTB)

    In my Wisdom Literature class, I’m taking the approach of tradition history.  We are trying to look at this corpus through each stage of development.  We started with textual criticism. At any rate, I can’t find the exact video I used, but this one will do.  To illustrate the importance of textual criticism, I told…

  • Interesting text criticial issues in Wisdom Literature

    A while back I posted asking if anyone knew of interesting text critical issues in the Wisdom Literature that I could use in my class.  I got no response other than Tim being surprised at how text critically inept we must be. At any rate, here are some of the texts that I ended up…

  • Interesting text critical issues in Wisdom Literature?

    In my Wisdom Literature class, we are talking about the transmission of the text of the Wisdom books.  We’ll work through some examples of text critical issues in class.  I have some examples already in mind, but I wanted to ask here: are there any interesting text critical issues that you have come across in…

  • Isaiah 53:11 – An Important Textual Variant

    The Old Testament lectionary reading for yesterday was Isaiah 53:10-11.  Verse 11 contains an interesting textual variant revolving around whether or not the word “light” is a part of the text.  It is one of those text critical issues where it really is a tough call.  An older manuscript contains the word light; however, the…