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Scriptural reconstruction is a non-standard term that may be used to refer to the scholarly reconstruction of the earliest recoverable text of a scriptural or other historically transmitted work from incomplete, variant, damaged, or later manuscript witnesses. In this sense, it is a form of textual criticism and philological analysis concerned with establishing, as far as the available evidence permits, the wording and sequence of a text at a specified stage of its transmission [1]. It involves the systematic comparison of documentary witnesses—including manuscripts, quotations, translations, and related textual evidence—to identify variant readings, assess their relationships, and justify a reconstructed reading or textual form [1][2]. The term should be distinguished from linguistic reconstruction, which infers unattested earlier language forms, and from interpretation, which concerns the meaning of a text rather than the establishment of its textual wording [2].

textual criticism philology manuscript tradition textual variants

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  1. Thomas Tanselle, G.T. A Rationale of Textual Criticism; University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, PA, USA, 1989.
  2. West, M. L. Textual Criticism and Editorial Technique Applicable to Greek and Latin Texts; B. G. Teubner: Stuttgart, 1973. [CrossRef]
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