Library Chat #3 - Books on Textual Criticism of the New Testament

[@Ray30gen]

Please make a video on Textual criticism on the Quran ?

[@hassanmirza2392]

Why? Quranic text is well preserved, unlike Bible manuscripts.

[@Jesusislord2443]

I have read a lot on textual criticism as a Christian to know about it. What’s your opinion on the interview where Herman said he’d only disagree with metzger on 50 places?

[@hassanmirza2392]

Book recommendation: Islam and Christianity: Theological Themes in Comparative Perspective, by John Renard

[@Jesusislord2443]

The majority of scholars agree that the Bible is reliable. Barth Herman only oversimplifies the variations. Like his 400000 variants for because we can spell John loves Mary in 8 different way . The variants are also mostly about spelling. When ask Bart Herman in a radio interview was asked what would the original Bible say. He said along the lines as : « pretty much what we had »

[@vincevergara5898]

I'd love to see a video about textual criticism/transmission variants of the Quran. I appreciate all the information on sources i get from your video. Thank you for that. But I do get the sense that the same principles are not being applied evenly to the Quran. I recently watched Yasir Kadhi being interviewd by Mohammed Hajib, and Kadhi appears to be disingenious or unforthcoming at the least, if not frankly dishonest.

[@ruddin93]

Skeletal Qur'anic Text canonised with controlled transmission 15 years after The Prophet's death. Multiple readings from the same skeletal Qur'anic Text goes back to The Prophet.