Textual criticism

noun

Word Frequency: 0.4

Definitions

1.nounA 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.

Synonyms

lower criticism textualism historical criticism stemmatics higher criticism varia lectio contextual criticism form criticism deconstruction textology deconstructionism ecdotics

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