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Textual Criticism of the Old Testament: Development

Differences between Manuscripts

When textual criticism as a discipline first began, research was mainly focused on the differences between Hebrew manuscripts and translations. If there was a discrepancy between two manuscripts, or between manuscripts and translations, research was done into which variant was likely to be the original. In this way, scholars tried to discover which variants had developed later.

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