textual criticism

noun

Meaning

A field of scholarly enquiry dedicated to reconstructing the oldest form(s) of a text that is or are possible to retrieve and to explaining any attested variants.

Etymology / origin

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Related words

lower criticism(English)textualism(English)historical criticism(English)stemmatics(English)higher criticism(English)varia lectio(English)contextual criticism(English)form criticism(English)

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Sources

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