Lectio brevior potior (Latin for "the shorter reading is stronger") is one of the principles in textual criticism, especially biblical textual criticism...

made a smooth reading more difficult to understand.' Bayes' theorem Lectio brevior Criterion of embarrassment Maurice A. Robinson, "New Testament Textual...

Lightfoot had established a scholarly consensus that it is (contrary to the lectio brevior rule-of-thumb) far easier to arrive at the Short Recension text by summarizing...

conflict. Two common considerations have the Latin names lectio brevior (shorter reading) and lectio difficilior (more difficult reading). The first is the...

Greenleaf Whittier commemorating the passage of the 13th Amendment lectio brevior potior The shorter reading is the better A maxim in text criticism....

one of the primary principles of their fledgling textual criticism, lectio brevior, sometimes taken to an extreme, as in the theory of Western non-interpolations...

oldest and closest to the original.: 213  One of Griesbach's rules is lectio brevior praeferenda: "the shorter reading is to be preferred". This was based...

(down) / dwell / live [here]". Shakhmatov and Ostrowski regarded the lectio brevior as the original, while Cross & Sherbowitz-Wetzor, Likhachev, and Thuis...

Greenleaf Whittier commemorating the passage of the 13th Amendment lectio brevior potior The shorter reading is the better A maxim in text criticism....

New Testament scholars have generally preferred the shorter reading – lectio brevior – of textual variants since the 19th century, B. F. Westcott and F....