He was and may remain the last great textual critic.

In his paper " The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism ," ( 1921 ) Housman stated: " A textual critic engaged upon his business is not at all like Newton investigating the motion of the planets: he is much more like a dog hunting for fleas.

* Samuel Thomas Bloomfield ( 1790 – 1869 ), scholar, textual critic

Johann Georg Baiter ( May 31, 1801 – October 10, 1877 ) was a Swiss philologist and textual critic.

Given a manuscript copy, several or many copies, but not the original document, the textual critic seeks to reconstruct the original text ( the archetype or autograph ) as closely as possible.

In establishing the critical text, the textual critic considers both " external " evidence ( the age, provenance, and affiliation of each witness ) and " internal " or " physical " considerations ( what the author and scribes, or printers, were likely to have done ).

The role of the textual critic is necessary when these basic criteria are in conflict.

The textual critic will attempt to balance these criteria, to determine the original text.

After considering all relevant factors, the textual critic seeks the reading that best explains how the other readings would arise.

The stemmatic method requires the textual critic to group manuscripts by commonality of error.

Johann Jakob Griesbach ( January 4, 1745 – March 24, 1812 ), German biblical textual critic, was born at Butzbach, a small town in the state of Hesse-Darmstadt, where his father, Konrad Kaspar ( 1705 – 1777 ), was pastor.

* Gordon Fee — Distinguished Professor of New Testament, Biblical scholar, textual critic

As a textual critic his knowledge was profound and his judgment unrivalled ; and he studied archaeology, being a frequent traveller in Italy and Greece.

Hills was the first textual critic to defend Textus Receptus.

Most scholars, following the approach of the textual critic Bruce Metzger, hold the view that verses 9-20 were not part of the original text.

He was a prolific author and textual critic.

Henry Alford ( 7 October 1810 – 12 January 1871 ) was an English churchman, theologian, textual critic, scholar, poet, hymnodist, and writer.

* Zhang Binglin ( 1868 – 1936 ), Chinese philologist, textual critic, and anti-Manchu revolutionary.

After decades of travel, writings, correspondence and studies to better prepare and present a worthy challenger to the Vulgate he had spent his life becoming the world's best textual critic.

Samuel Prideaux Tregelles ( 30 January 1813 – 24 April 1875 ) was an English biblical scholar, textual critic, and theologian.

Discovering that the textus receptus did not rest on ancient authority, Tregelles decided to publish a new version of the Greek text of the New Testament based on ancient manuscripts and the citations of the early church fathers, unaware for many years that his work was paralleling that of German philologist and textual critic, Karl Lachmann.

* David C. Parker, theology professor and textual critic

Kirsopp Lake, an outstanding British textual critic, developed hypothesis of the relationship between f < sup > 1 </ sup >, f < sup > 13 </ sup >, Θ, 565, 700, and 28.

As a textual critic Henry was exceedingly conservative.

Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.

This was due largely to increasing popularity of textual communication services such as instant-and text messaging.

The only independent textual source for Ammianus lies in M, another ninth-century Frankish codex which was, unfortunately, unbound and placed in other codices during the fifteenth century.

Based on internal textual references, " Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye " apparently dates from the early 1820s, while When Johnny Comes Marching Home was first published in 1863.

According to textual scholars, this is really the Jahwist's account of the reunion after Joseph identifies himself, and the account of the threat to enslave Benjamin is just the Elohist's version of the same event, with the Elohist being more terse about Joseph's emotions towards Benjamin, merely mentioning that Benjamin was given five times as many gifts as the others.

The English Biblical scholar Robert Henry Charles ( 1855 – 1931 ) reasoned on internal textual grounds that the book was edited by someone who spoke no Hebrew and who wished to promote a different theology from John's.

Thus, in the Hindu schools, if a claim was made that could not be substantiated by appeal to the textual canon, it would be considered as ridiculous as a claim that the sky was green and, conversely, a claim which could not be substantiated via conventional means might still be justified through textual reference, differentiating this from the epistemology of modern science.

Today, the numeral is often called stigma, after the value of a Byzantine Greek ligature σ-τ ( ϛ ), which shares the same shape and was used as a textual ligature in Greek print until the 19th century.

The textual transmission of the plays from the fifth century BC, when they were first written, up until the era of the printing press, was largely a haphazard process in which much of Euripides's work was lost and corrupted, but it also included triumphs by scholars and copyists, thanks to whom much was also recovered and preserved.

Most of the manuscripts were, however, late Greek manuscripts of the Byzantine textual family and Erasmus used the oldest manuscript the least because " he was afraid of its supposedly erratic text.

Access to the computing environment ( e. g. the program's command line, environment variables, textual explanation of error conditions ) remained a problem until it was addressed by the 2003 standard.

According to some textual critics, it was subsequently translated into Greek and added to later Greek manuscripts.

As the same text often existed in several different versions, comparative textual criticism was crucial for ensuring their veracity.

The " discoursal " function was renamed the " textual function ".

In attempting to determine the original text of the New Testament books, some modern textual critics have identified sections as additions of material, centuries after the gospel was written.

During this period, modern textual criticism was born.

This was the beginning of modern New Testament textual criticism, which over subsequent centuries would increasingly incorporate more and more manuscripts, in more languages ( i. e., versions of the New Testament ), as well as citations of the New Testament by ancient authors and the New Testament text in lectionaries in order to reconstruct the earliest recoverable form of the New Testament text and the history of changes to it.

Scholars have found that the styles of Shakespeare and Oxford, based on a computerised textual comparison developed by the Claremont Shakespeare Clinic, are " light years apart "; it was reported that the odds of Oxford having written Shakespeare are " lower than the odds of getting hit by lightning ".

Origen was a prolific writer in multiple branches of theology, including textual criticism, biblical exegesis and hermeneutics, philosophical theology, preaching, and spirituality.