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The 122 pages that link to Textual criticism, each with the reason it gives.

• Renaissance humanismRelated: Humanists compared manuscripts to correct corrupt texts and recover earlier readings.

• Historical criticismRelated: A historically grounded interpretation may depend on which version of a text is examined.

• Historical source criticismRelated: Comparing copies can expose copying errors and later changes in documentary sources.

• AuthorshipRelated: Comparing versions can reveal how a text was composed, revised, or transmitted.

• Anglo-Saxon ChronicleRelated: It helps distinguish inherited Chronicle material from later changes and errors.

• Samuel JohnsonRelated: Johnson’s editorial work required choices among variant readings in Shakespeare’s printed texts.

• Pauline epistlesRelated: Comparing manuscript witnesses helps reconstruct the wording of the letters.

• Library of AlexandriaRelated: Alexandrian scholars compared copies and marked disputed readings in literary works.

• Biblical exegesisRelated: Establishing the wording of a biblical passage can precede interpreting it.

• Close readingRelated: Comparing versions can change which details a close reading treats as evidence.

• PhilologyRelated: It compares witnesses to recover a text’s transmission and assess its wording.

• BibleRelated: It evaluates differences among surviving biblical manuscripts.

• VulgateRelated: Vulgate manuscripts preserve variant readings that scholars compare to establish text history.

• EpigraphyRelated: Damaged or variant inscriptions require careful decisions about missing and disputed wording.

• Historical sourceRelated: It helps assess whether a surviving text preserves its original wording.

• ErasmusRelated: Erasmus compared manuscripts to establish and explain the Greek New Testament text.

• Christian apologeticsRelated: Apologists use manuscript evidence to address questions about the New Testament’s transmission.

• Manuscript cultureRelated: Copying errors and revisions make manuscript witnesses essential evidence for establishing texts.

• Biblical criticismRelated: It compares biblical manuscripts to assess how wording changed during transmission.

• Arabic literary criticismRelated: Editing variant Arabic manuscripts can change the evidence on which literary judgments depend.

• Medieval historiographyRelated: Variant manuscripts help reconstruct a history’s changing forms.

• Bible translationsRelated: Translators must decide which manuscript readings to render when biblical witnesses differ.

• Classical philologyRelated: Collating manuscript variants helps philologists recover ancient works from imperfect copies.

• Ethiopian historiographyRelated: Comparing manuscript copies helps distinguish later alteration from earlier chronicle material.

• Gospel of ThomasRelated: Comparing the Coptic text with Greek fragments helps trace Thomas's transmission.

• Biblical hermeneuticsRelated: It helps establish the wording of biblical passages before interpretation.

• Byzantine historiographyRelated: Most Byzantine histories survive through manuscript copying, which introduced variants and losses.

• Confucian classicsRelated: Confucian scholars compared competing versions and lineages of the classics.

• JeromeRelated: Comparing Hebrew and Greek witnesses required judgments about competing scriptural readings.

• Icelandic sagasRelated: Different saga manuscripts preserve variations that complicate claims about an original, stable text.

• Authorship attributionRelated: A reliable text is needed before its language can be compared across works.

• Canon of the New TestamentRelated: The canon identifies which New Testament writings textual critics examine as scripture.

• ChronicleRelated: Comparing chronicle manuscripts helps distinguish original entries from later changes.

• ExegesisRelated: Establishing which words belong to a text can be a prerequisite for interpreting them.

• Hu ShihRelated: Hu used critical methods to challenge received accounts of Chinese intellectual history.

• Old TestamentRelated: It compares ancient witnesses to identify variants in Old Testament books.

• Oxyrhynchus PapyriRelated: Variant readings in the fragments can clarify how ancient texts were transmitted.

• PseudepigraphyRelated: Comparing wording and transmission can help assess a work's attribution and composition.

• AvestanRelated: Comparing manuscript readings helps distinguish inherited wording from later transmission changes.

• Ibn IshaqRelated: Comparing Ibn Hisham and al-Tabari helps scholars examine variants in Ibn Ishaq’s material.

• Natya ShastraRelated: Multiple versions and layers make the treatise’s composition history difficult to establish.

• Textual transmissionRelated: Comparing surviving copies helps identify how a work changed during transmission.

• Biblical translationRelated: Translators compare textual witnesses when biblical manuscripts differ.

• FootnoteRelated: Footnotes became a place to record variant readings and editorial decisions.

• Papias of HierapolisRelated: The surviving fragments must be evaluated through their later quotations and transmission.

• Sanskrit Buddhist literatureRelated: It helps assess variant readings across manuscripts and translated versions.

• ĀgamaRelated: Comparing Chinese, Pali, and other witnesses helps identify shared and divergent readings.

• Literary forgeryRelated: Comparing witnesses can reveal additions, substitutions, and false claims of textual descent.

• MarcionismRelated: Reconstructing Marcion’s edited Gospel and letters depends on reports and textual evidence that require critical comparison.

• Max MüllerRelated: Müller’s editions required comparing manuscript traditions and making editorial decisions.