How Textual Critique Can Help Us Understand Jesus Teaching

The earliest known complete copy of the new testament dates to about 350 a d. The earliest known fragments of new testament writings date to about 150 a d. Textual criticism is not criticizing a text, Rather, it involves trying to get to the original version of a text. For example, we can't study the original manuscript of the gospel of john because it doesn't exist. In future videos, see examples of how textual criticism can help us understand jesus teaching.