Though many viewpoints and definitions have arisen over the millennia, most originate in the same textual tradition.

Current theories attempt to link the three synoptic gospels together through a common textual tradition.

The current division of the Bible into chapters and the verse numbers within the chapters has no basis in any ancient textual tradition.

Each new critical weapon opens the whole Western textual tradition to a new campaign of slash and burn.

The Jewish textual tradition never finalized the order of the books in Ketuvim.

Scholars place these manuscripts together based on similarities in artistic style, script, and textual traditions.

The text is a mixture of several different textual traditions.

The exact number of poems in the collection varies depending on the textual tradition.

However, as discussed below, there is some obscurity surrounding its textual tradition, the identity of the author and the date of composition.

The corrections in the text are almost always representative of the Byzantine textual tradition.