Andrew W. Wilson revisits long-held assumptions about textual variants and how they arose through an analysis of more than ten thousand of the New Testament's singular and subsingular readings. The work's meticulous register of scribal errors provides not only a foundation for the methodological reevaluation of today's most prominent studies of scribal habits, but also the warrant for reforming the discipline's traditional text-critical canons. Scholars and students alike will appreciate Wilson's fresh and penetrating reappraisal of the formation of biblical texts.