Oldest & Best Manuscript Evidence Database
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Methodology

Simple categories for a complicated evidence landscape.

This site is not a long theological essay. It is an organized display layer for the evidence categories used in the source paper.

Greek manuscripts

Greek witnesses are separated into support and evidence-against tables. Aggregate rows such as Byzantine Majority are kept visible when the paper uses count-first summaries.

Lectionaries

Lectionary support is listed when the paper names it or when a count snapshot identifies it as part of the evidence profile.

Ancient versions

Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Gothic, Armenian, Georgian, Ethiopic, and Slavonic evidence is grouped in versional sections and indexed on the versions page.

Patristic citations

Church father entries preserve the paper's date and quote-summary format, with region labels added only to improve browsing.

Printed Greek editions

Printed editions are treated as reception evidence, not as manuscript-count evidence.

Majority support

A majority-support tag is used only where the data object describes broad Greek manuscript support.

Scant evidence against

This category is reserved for passages where the paper gives a small count or small named set of Greek opposition witnesses.

Complex evidence

Complex readings keep their mixed category visible. The site does not convert limited Greek support into a false majority claim.