OT Textual Criticism
DRDaniel Rodriguez · May 19, 2013, 8:21 PM · Last modified: Sep 28, 2026, 11:36 AM
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Part of series Text, canon, and versions of the Bible
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So the missing piece here is an explanation of why the two major text-critical principles are that the 1. harder and 2. shorter readings are to be preferred (all other things being equal). The short answer is that scribes (and translators) tend to explain and expand. This means that if two (harder/easier, longer/shorter) forms exist, it is easier to imagine that a harder reading was made easier, and a shorter reading was make longer, than the reverse.
It should be just below the main video window next to "Additional Resources." It is called "Smaller file-faster download/stream." The link below should also work. https://map.bloomfire.com/posts/604622-ot-textual-criticism/resources/26934