⏱️ Timestamps
00:00 Introduction: Critical Case Study of the Comma Johanneum (1 John 5:7-8)
00:35 Evaluating the External Evidence: The First Thousand Years of History
00:54 Textual Forensics: Latin Marginal Glosses & Spatial Roots
01:12 The Dilemma of Erasmus & The Manufacture of Codex Montfortianus
01:34 Modern Text-Critical Standards: Filtering Out Late Geographical Additions
Welcome to the eighth session of our foundational course in Biblical Textual Criticism. In this lecture, we conduct a critical case study on one of the most famous and heavily debated textual problems in manuscript history: The Comma Johanneum in 1 John 5:7-8.
We evaluate the absolute external and internal evidence under strict text-critical parameters to trace the historical origin of this insertion. Discover how textual forensics show that the Comma is entirely missing from all ancient Greek manuscripts for the first thousand years of Church history—including Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus—and how it originated as a local Latin marginal gloss that later entered the printed Greek text through the famous dilemma of Erasmus and Codex Montfortianus. Subscribe to follow this complete 10-part academic global curriculum.
Through this channel, we aim to simplify a complex specialty, Biblical criticism of the New Testament, by presenting core concepts and practical issues. Hoping to see your active participation, comments, and fruitful discussions.
If you are interested in the historical transmission of the New Testament and textual changes introduced into the scripture manuscripts, we invite you to read these two important books by prominent authors in the field of textual criticism:
1. Studies in the Theory and Method of New Testament Textual Criticism | by Eldon J. Epp & Gordon D. Fee
2. New Testament Text and Translation Commentary | by Philip W. Comfort
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