It was established in 1852 as a journal of textual criticism.
Textual criticism has been practiced for over two thousand years.
Textual criticism is the investigation into the history and origins of the text.
Textual criticism is at its most compelling in situations such as this.
In some countries textual criticism can be seen as apostasy.
Neither philosophy nor textual criticism, however, had led Lewis to the form.
A similar type of textual criticism is applied to other ancient texts.
Christians as a whole however may be said to have been slow to appropriate the results of textual criticism and historical research.
Investigation of questions such as these are known as higher textual criticism.
Textual criticism is concerned with recovering the original text of a document.