textualist
textualist — noun
1. a person who carefully studies every word and sentence of holy writings such as
a person who carefully studies every word and sentence of holy writings such as the Bible, paying close attention to small details in order to understand the exact meaning
Stefan is a textualist who compares early Greek copies of the Bible to find the oldest version.
textualist + who-clause describing speciality
The church hired a textualist named Rania to check whether their new translation matched the original text.
As a textualist, Tuan noticed that a single letter in the old scroll changed the meaning of the whole sentence.
A team of textualists spent two years studying one short book of the Bible word by word.
- text critic
more technical; focuses on comparing manuscript versions to reconstruct the original wording
- scripture scholar
broader; may also study historical context and interpretation, not only exact wording
- biblical scholar
specifically refers to the Christian Bible; less common for other religious texts
文法句型
a textualist
the textualist
textualist + who-clause
用法筆記
Countable noun. Often used with a modifier that specifies the tradition being studied (e.g., biblical textualist, Qur'anic textualist). The -ist suffix marks the person who practises this discipline; the field itself is textualism.