I stand with the earliest Christians who set the Septuagint as the norm of their faith.
Material is usually added to texts, not subtracted.
The odd thing is that bad texts are usually the oldest ones found, but the best texts are usually the ones copied. Scrolls scrub themselves as they are rolled and unrolled, and so a constant effort is needed to keep the good texts in use. Bad texts tend to be written by ‘novices’ and then set aside, not used, and can be very old. Example of a bad text might be the Gospel of Peter round last century. An example of a good text saved might be the dead sea scrolls, which were probably good texts that were hidden from the Romans.
The odd thing is that bad texts are usually the oldest ones found, but the best texts are usually the ones copied. Scrolls scrub themselves as they are rolled and unrolled, and so a constant effort is needed to keep the good texts in use. Bad texts tend to be written by ‘novices’ and then set aside, not used, and can be very old. Example of a bad text might be the Gospel of Peter round last century. An example of a good text saved might be the dead sea scrolls, which were probably good texts that were hidden from the Romans.