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Textual criticism   /tˈɛkstʃəwəl krˈɪtɪsˌɪzəm/   Listen
Textual criticism

noun
1.
Comparison of a particular text with related materials in order to establish authenticity.






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"Textual criticism" Quotes from Famous Books



... fine love of truth and genius for textual criticism make him one of the greatest, if not the greatest, name in British scholarship. Porson married, in 1795, Mrs. Lunan, sister of Mr. Perry, the editor of the 'Morning Chronicle', for which he frequently wrote. In the 'Shade of Alexander Pope', Mathias again attacks ...
— The Works Of Lord Byron, Letters and Journals, Vol. 1 • Lord Byron, Edited by Rowland E. Prothero

... Methods of textual criticism: (a) original preserved; (b) a single copy preserved, conjectural emendation; (c) several copies preserved, comparison of errors, families of ...
— Introduction to the Study of History • Charles V. Langlois

... beauty and accuracy are so great that even the Presbyterians, both in England and Scotland, gradually gave up the use of their Genevan Bible in favour of this translation. But since 1611 hundreds of manuscripts have been discovered and examined. "Textual criticism," by which an endeavour is made to discover the precise words written by the writers of the New Testament, where discrepancies exist in the manuscripts, has become a science. Many results of this criticism have been embodied in the Revised Version, ...
— The Books of the New Testament • Leighton Pullan



Words linked to "Textual criticism" :   higher criticism, Masorah, lower criticism, Masora, literary criticism, criticism



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