What is Reception Noise?

Reception noise refers to interferences arising during text reception, resulting from entrenched interpretive habits, doctrinal projections, anachronistic conceptual categories, and cultural reading patterns. It does not constitute textual data in the strict sense, but rather a factor influencing the assessment of the relevance of variants and interpretive hypotheses. In EBBS, reception noise is treated as one of the main sources of interpretive contamination, requiring explicit methodological control.

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