One of the most significant tensions present in the history of biblical interpretation is the difference between analyzing the text itself and constructing …

In the Evidence-Based Biblical Studies (EBBS) approach, deduction occupies a clearly defined place within the overall research process. It does not initi…

Manuscript evidence constitutes a primary class of data in the analysis of biblical texts. It includes the material witnesses of transmission — papyri, maj…

The hermeneutical circle in the analysis of textual data refers to a situation in which the reconstruction of the interpretive context is based on a previou…

Harmonization in translation is not merely a stylistic tendency or a preference for smoothness; it is a methodological decision with far-reaching epistemic con…

In interpretive practice, meaning rarely moves in a single temporal direction. Readers do not approach texts empty-handed; they come equipped with conceptual f…

Back translation is an analytical technique used to examine how meaning changes as a text moves between languages. It involves translating a text from a source…

Interpretive noise refers to redundant or uncontrolled interpretive operations in which inferences exceed the scope and quality of available data. This can tak…

Reception noise refers to interferences arising during text reception, resulting from entrenched interpretive habits, doctrinal projections, anachronistic conc…

Transmission noise refers to the variability created during the process of copying, recording, and material transmission of a text. It includes, among other th…

In Evidence-Based Biblical Studies, noise refers to any form of variation or interference that does not contribute new information relevant to a given research…

A halakhic text is a normative text of Jewish law, whose purpose is not to convey doctrine or theological narrative, but to regulate actual social and religiou…

Variant data in EBBS refers to discrete units of information describing recorded differences in the sound of a text between surviving traditional documents, su…

Variant analysis from an EBBS perspective involves systematically identifying and describing all attested textual variations in a given fragment, without prior…

In the Evidence-Based Biblical Studies methodology, Controlled Interpretation is a secondary stage to data analysis and basic translation. Its goal is not to c…

In Evidence-Based Biblical Studies, the Principle of Deferred Harmonization holds that interpretation must not precede data analysis. As in forensic investigat…

A research question in Evidence-Based Biblical Studies (EBBS) is not a simple interrogative formula nor a vehicle for a presupposed answer. It is an epistemic …

Formal equivalence is a translation concept that seeks maximal correspondence between the form of the source text and that of the target text, preserving word …

Dynamic equivalence is a translation concept that prioritizes the functional effect of a text on its target audience over formal correspondence to its source-l…

Textual transmission refers to the process by which a text is passed on over time, including copying, rewriting, editing, translating, and preserving it across…