The Challenge of the Majority Text: Should We Reevaluate Our Critical Methods?by David L. Moore This paper was presented in partial fulfillment of requirements for a seminary course taken in autumn of 1986. Except for a few spelling corrections, it is published here in its original form. INTRODUCTION Even as early as 1707 when John Mill published his large edition of the Greek NT based mainly on Stephanus's third edition of the Textus Receptus (hereafter TR), traditionalists raised severe criticism against him for the few textual changes he had effected on the basis of his critical study of available MSS.1...