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Some biblical scholars have concluded from this that Bach acted like an astute textual critic, poring over Calov’s volumes and painstakingly comparing them, line by line, with other Lutheran Bibles.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2018

The rationalists, however, were generally of a nobler sort: Griesbach of Jena, a.d. 1745-1812, distinguished as textual critic of the N.T.;

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.

But it is strange that a scholar and textual critic of his eminence and of European reputation should have made comparatively little mark in his native country.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

In the absence of all external evidence the textual critic must fall back upon conjecture.

From The Christian View of the Old Testament by Eiselen, Frederick Carl

It is just this readiness to devise expedients to meet emergencies as they arise which is at once the strength and the weakness of Dr. Hort's position as a textual critic.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose