Evangelicals and the Textual Criticism of the Old Testament

In building an evangelical doctrine of Scripture, Christ’s attitude to the Old Testament is foundational. Evangelical doctrines of Scripture are therefore particularly challenged when people claim that the Old Testament text was not established or pluriform at the time of Christ and/or the apostles. We look at some of the technicalities involved in the transmission of Hebrew, including vowel points and the forms of Old Testament quotations in the Greek New Testament and conclude that an evangelical doctrine of Scripture is still meaningful, and also generates questions for research.