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Wednesday, December 08, 2021

The Goalpost of New Testament Textual Criticism

A notice and two reviews. Changing the Goalpost of New Testament Textual Criticism, Abidan Paul Shah, Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2020
Even before the release of Shah’s book, Jeff Riddle had already written and spoken about “a momentous postmodern shift in the contemporary academic NT text criticism.” Now Shah addressed the same. The author agrees with the “old” goal of Westcott-Hort and others, and disagrees with the “new” direction of Ehrman, Parker, and others. The “old” goal was ostensibly to recover the original New Testament. The “new” direction is that the old goal is not possible. I disagree with both positions, holding the view that God providentially preserved his inspired word. Despite the fact that I cannot recommend the direction of the book (since the premise does not realize the goalpost had already been moved), based on Jeff Riddle’s review, it sounds that possibly Shah’s currently one-of-a-kind critique of the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method might be worth the price of the book.

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