“To be sure, these witnesses provide an excellent illustration of textual dynamics, and they deepen our knowledge of the development of the Bible text in the technical sense.”
Of his analysis of mediaeval Biblical manuscripts.
"Hebrew Biblical Manuscripts" (Biblica, 48 (1967), pp.243-290)
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Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Melodrama: The Silver King (1993).

The Text-Critical Use of the Septuagint, 2nd ed. (1997), p.232

“The text of the Bible is but a feeble symbol of the Revelation held in the text of Men and Women.”
Impressions and Comments http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8ells10.txt (1914)
Jesus, Jews and the Shoah: A Moral Reckoning by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (2003)

“The history of the Bible text is a romance of literature,”
Source: The Story Of The Bible, Chapter I, The Bible And Recent Discoveries, p. 4
Context: The history of the Bible text is a romance of literature, though it is a romance of which the consequences are of vital import; and thanks to the succession of discoveries which have been made of late years, we know more about it than of the history of any other ancient book in the world.
Source: The Secular Bible: Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously (2005), p. 28

in a review of William Herschel's A Treatise on Sound, Quarterly Review, Vol. 44, No. 88 (January-February 1831), p. 476 http://books.google.com/books?id=742veo7MzswC&printsec=titlepage#PPA476,M1.
also quoted by Brewster himself in his Treatise on Optics http://books.google.com/books?id=opYAAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#PPR4,M1 and by Dionysius Lardner as frontispiece or presentation of his works (see for example: Popular lectures on science and art http://books.google.com/books?id=uZ9LAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA3, Cabinet Cyclopaedia http://books.google.com/books?id=5T43oHhqyxUC&pg=RA1-PT7).
Context: It is not easy to devise a cure for such a state of things (the declining taste for science). The most obvious remedy is to provide the educated classes with a series of works on popular and practical science, freed from mathematical symbols and technical terms, written in simple and perspicuous language, and illustrated by facts and experiments which are level to the capacity of ordinary minds.

Neville Cardus, Foreword to All On A Summer's Day.
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