A Dialogue, and other links

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• A Dialogue Between a Traditional Text Advocate and a Critical Text Advocate -- “It is no less true to fact than paradoxical in sound, that the worst corruptions to which the New Testament has ever been subjected, originated within a hundred years after it was composed.”
• All of the Museum of the Bible’s Dead Sea Scrolls Are Fake, Report Finds -- “…new revelations about the forgeries have significance beyond the museum itself, raising questions about the authenticity of the entirety of the post-2002 scrolls.”
• Critical Text or Traditional Text? -- “My concern is that the same secular methods of textual criticism that I studied as a youngster and applied to ancient secular writers...are being applied to the holy and inerrant word of God and that the work of liberal theologians and unbelieving textual experts are being accepted by evangelicals in a way that they would never accept a liberal exegetical commentary.”
• How Gender-Neutral Bible Translations Endanger Christian Marriage -- “I refer to an artificially-constructed, as opposed to naturally evolved, language that its proponents call ‘gender-inclusive’ or ‘gender-accurate,’ but which is really ‘gender-neutral.’”
• States are rushing to close schools. But what does the science on closures say? -- “We must consider the huge societal costs of closing schools against what may be little or no health benefit.”
• Textual Criticism: Stylistic Arguments -- “Unique style and word choice can be argued from just about anywhere in Scripture, even from passages where the human author is not disputed. For example, many undisputed passages in John (6:3-14; 9:1-12; 4:5-16; 21:1-12; etc.) have been shown to have the same number of so-called “non-Johannine” words as the Pericope Adulterae.”
• We’re Learning Why Governments Can’t Be Trusted with Health Crises -- “If COVID-19 originated in China, then the pandemic started in one of the most powerful and most centralized states in the world.”
• What’s the Scoop on the New King James Version?  -- “Since the NKJV was done, James Price, a big man on the translation committee on the OT, has authored a huge volume attacking the King James Version.”
• Why the Story of the Woman Caught in Adultery Belongs in the Bible -- “The story of the woman taken in adultery (called the pericope de adultera) has been rather harshly treated by the modern English versions.”
• Will the Free Exercise Clause Catch the Coronavirus? -- “Our first mission is not the protection of our religious liberty.”