Transmission and interpretation of the New Testament. Dialogue from the translation

One of the risks of the theologian is the desire of "domesticating" the biblical text, assuming unconsciously that we have the original autographs. The historical-critical method and, specifically, textual criticism as its starting point, functions as a permanent reminder to avoid falling into this trap. The "New Philology", the culture manuscript and the new approaches to New Testament textual criticism show that in the impossibility of reaching the original text we need to analyse each of the manuscripts as testimonies of a "living text". Latin translations are an example of this vitality. They manifest how the text escapes reductionism and cannot be separated from the community of faith in which it is born.