Before the 1960s, the goal of New Testament Textual Criticism was singular: to retrieve the ""original text"" of the New Testament.
Other scholars have gone a step further to claim that the idea of an ""original text"" itsel.
Some scholars have even concluded that the ""original text"" is hopelessly lost and cannot be retrieved with any confidence or accuracy.
Since then, the Goalpost has incrementally shifted away from the ""original text"" to retrieving ""any text"" or ""many texts"" of the NT.
Before the 1960s, the goal of New Testament Textual Criticism was singular: to retrieve the ""original text"" of the New Testament