One of the most serious methodological threats in textual research is not the lack of data, but an excess of data subordinated to a single, privileged explanat…

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…

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