Journal of African Studies and Sustainable Development

This work argues that Africans played vital roles in the reconstruction of the New Testament text, but the history of the old shrines has never been quite reconstructive, and a rereading of the African past of textual criticism will promote reliance for restoring the text of the New Testament. These arguments are born of recent research, which has shown an interest in the “original text” of the New Testament within the discipline of textual criticism. Within this, many relevant discourses have been flying in the atmosphere in search of methods of accomplishing this preconceived aim, i.e., restoring the “original text” of the New Testament. Relying on the history of the text will adequately classify the role played by Africans (Coptic Christians) and promote dependence on the substantive manuscripts that might lead us to the original text.

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