The Text of the Bible
Background issues for the dialog with Muslims
- Textual criticism of Bible and Qur'an
- What the Qur'an says about the Bible
- The Compilation of the Text of the Qur'an and the Sunni-Shia Dispute seeks to "show how the different Muslim hypotheses about the compilation of the Qur'an, and the Sunni-Shia dispute therein, help to explain the attitudes of Muslims to the Christian concept of inspiration, text and canon."
Since we are not really experts ourselves on this somewhat technical issue, most these links lead to articles on other web sites. On this page we are only concerned with the topic of how well the text of the Biblical books has been preserved, the age of the manuscripts and similar questions. This is about textual criticism, not about content, canonicity, inspiration and other issues which are dealt with elsewhere.
A list of links relevant to textual questions, the Resource Page for Biblical Studies and NT Papyri & Codices.
Other Bible issues
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