An acquaintance with the history of texts and the principles of textual criticism is indispensable for the student of history, literature, or philosophy.
Examine the history of texts to determine how long this has been going on.
The history of the text itself is characterized by similar uncertainty.
The history of the text during the intervening period may be illustrated from external sources; but if examination has convinced the critic that the transmitted text (or its variants) are not authentic, he normally has no recourse but to bridge the gap by conjecture.
To complete the history of the text, a new Latin translation was done by Stephen of Antioch in 1127, entitled Liber Regius [41].
Editions four and five were not so important as the third edition in the history of the Text of the New Testament.
(For more information on the history of the texts, see Graham (2003: 64 70).) The early decades of the twentieth century saw a surge of interest in the later Mohists, fueled partly by contact with Western philosophy and science.
Noah: Jenny Diski on the history of the Biblical text Noah: First look review.
The first involves the history of the Hebrew text, the second deals with attempts to reconstruct its "original" form.
