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

There are religious practices which, due to their widespread nature, cease to be the subject of critical reflection. Prayer to the wounds of Christ belongs t…

In popular religious discourse, as well as in part of the theological literature, the belief has become entrenched that the God of the Old Testament is primar…

In biblical text research, translation is often treated as a technical operation of transferring content from one language to another. In practice, however, i…

The debate about women in the Bible usually unfolds between two poles: an apologetic one (“the Bible has always affirmed women”) and a critical one (“the Bibl…

Historical interference in the EBBS model refers to a situation in which an adopted reconstruction of the past begins to regulate the interpretation of the te…

...leads to overinterpretation. There is a subtle but recurring methodological mistake in biblical studies: if a translation is ancient, majestic, and formativ…

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

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…

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…

Evidence-Based Biblical Studies (EBBS) is a research approach that focuses on analyzing linguistic, reception, and contextual data before drawing conclusions. …