On Methodologies of New Testament Textual Criticism
Not long ago, I was finally able to read the debate between Gordon Fee and Zane Hodges, which took place in a series of articles in the March and June 1978 editions of the
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. (
Fee's article,
Hodges' response,
Fee's rejoinder,
Hodges' "surrejoinder") The debate concerns the general methodology of New Testament textual criticism. Fee supports a method known as "reasoned eclecticism," whereas Hodges supports what is known as the "majority text method" or some such. (Contrary to the charges sometimes leveled against it, the majority text method is
not just a rationalization for...
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