Where results make sense

About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us

Topic: Byzantine text-type

    Note: these results are not from the primary (high quality) database.

Ads by Google

In the News (Fri 25 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

Byzantine text-type - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Byzantine text-type is the text-type with by far the largest number of manuscripts, especially from the invention of the minuscule (cursive) handwriting in the 9th century. Although the majority of New Testament textual critics now favor a text that is Alexandrian in complexion, especially after the publication of Westcott and Hort's edition, there remain some proponents of the Byzantine text-type as the type of text most similar to the autographs. Among those who believe that the Byzantine text is only a secondary witness to the autograph, there is some debate concerning the origin of the Byzantine text and the reason for its widespread use and homogeneity. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Byzantine_text-type   (582 words)

Some Thoughts For Evaluating the KJV/Majority Text vs. New Translations/Minority Text Debate Byzantine Text advocates often assert that many manuscript copies of the Scripture were corrupted in the early centuries of the church (pre-fourth-century), and these corrupted manuscripts are identified with the non-Byzantine Text-types, or particularly the Alexandrian Text-family which usually stands behind the modern translations. If the Byzantine Text-type is the original Word of God, and has been readily available to the church for the past 1900 years, we would expect the Church Fathers' quotations to reflect the Byzantine Text readings, not the readings of other text-families. Although the two texts are more similar than are the Critical Text and the Textus Receptus (TR),5 the Byzantine Text differs from the TR in over 1,838 places, thus the reading of the KJV does not always reflect the reading of the Byzantine Text. www.apostolic.net /biblicalstudies/kjvevaluation.htm   (5777 words)

Textus Receptus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Textus Receptus is classified by scholars as a late Byzantine text. Textus Receptus (Latin: "Received Text") is the name given to the first Greek text of the New Testament to be printed with movable type. This is the text that was in use by the Eastern Orthodox Church in Erasmus' time (ca. www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Textus_Receptus   (367 words)

WESTERN TEXT-TYPE FACTS AND INFORMATION The Western text-type is a diverse group of manuscripts of the New_Testament whose text is similar to that of early Christian writers in Rome and Gaul, including Justin_Martyr and Irenaeus. These texts tend toward longer passages than is found in the other groups of texts, frequently augmented with glosses, additional details, and the original passages are replaced with longer paraphrases. In at least two Western texts, the Gospels appear in a variant order: Matthew, John, Luke, Mark. www.beatlesfacts.com /Western_text-type   (150 words)

txcrmthd.htm Likewise, the argument that the homogeneity of the Byzantine text-type indicates authenticity falters in that the Byzantine type is not uniform when its readings are compared chronologically, and patristic evidence indicates that the majority MS witness of the first centuries was probably not Byzantine. Proponents of the MT also cite the uniformity of the Byzantine text-type as an argument for its authenticity. It is not surprising that, before the development of movable type, textual editing had been limited to penned-in corrections noted on the MS and occasional conflations or harmonizations when more than one MS was available to the copyist. members.aol.com /dvdmoore/html/majtext/txcrmthd.htm   (3768 words)

Reevaluation of Westcott and Hort The Byzantine Text-Type and New Testament Textual Criticism, by Harry A. Sturz, former Professor Of Greek and Chairman of the Theology Department at Biola University, maintains that BT is an important independent witness to the original text (3). The text at the basis of most modern translations is known as the critical text or eclectic text (CT), which modern scholars have developed using the principles of textual criticism laid down by the nineteenth-century scholars B. Westcott and F. Hort. The text at the basis of the King James Version is known as the Received Text or Textus Receptus (TR), which the great Renaissance scholar Erasmus assembled from the small number of Greek manuscripts available to him. www.themoorings.org /doctrine/issues/versions/WH.html   (2490 words)

The preservation of the Textus Receptus The sure evidence for the integrity of the Byzantine manuscripts continues in the Uncials: the fifth century Codices Alexandrinus (a-02; Byzantine in the Gospels), and Ephraemi (C-01), and in practically all the later ones. The conclusion: the Byzantine readings can be traced as far back as the second century, contrary to the assertion of Westcott and Hort that the Byzantine family of manuscripts are an inflated ecclesiastical edition of the fourth century. Before having its connection with Byzantium, though, this form of text (in contrast with the Alexandrian which is largely corrupt by Gnostic interpolations) was associated with the capital of the Roman province of Syria, Antioch. www.tecmalta.org /tft119.htm   (636 words)

Translations and the Greek Text This text is a Byzantine type; that is, it represents a family of manuscripts that are mostly associated with the Constantinople area of modern Turkey. It is true that P66 is not a fully Byzantine text, yet it is true it is not fully Alexandrian or Western either.[99] All three of the text-types existed side-by-side in the papyrus. Although this type of text is obviously Egyptian in origin and home, it is not possible to maintain that Egypt had preserved an uncorrupted form of text, of which B is a characteristic example. www.bibleteachings.org /authority-6.html   (17547 words)

greektext.html The contrast between the Received Text (the Greek text based on a wide range of Byzantine text- type manuscripts) and the Critical Text (the Greek text based on a few remote Alexandria text type manuscripts) is overwhelming, yet the Critical Text has held an honored position in the scholarly word in recent years. The Old Testament was based on the Masoretic text type and the New Testament based on the Byzantine text type, the work was accomplished just in time for it to be carried by to America where it became the authorized Scriptures for millions of English-speaking people in the New World. Although none of the Greek manuscripts of the Byzantine text-type date before AD 400, most scholars agree that in order for this text-type to be so widespread and predominant among the Greek manuscripts, it had to have a much earlier existence. dedication.www3.50megs.com /greektext.html   (2731 words)

Text-Types and Textual Kinship Westcott and Hort's text is based largely on the evidence of text-types, and remains the model New Testament text to this day (if it be noted that the UBS text has now supplanted WH, it should be noticed that UBS, like the texts of Bover and Merk, differs very little from WH). is a part of the Alexandrian text, or it is the archetype of the text. This was noteworthy; until this time, the Byzantine text had been treated as a monolithic unity (and not distinguished from its corrupt descendent, the Textus Receptus. www.skypoint.com /~waltzmn/TextTypes.html   (16332 words)

Pilgrim Works - Bible Translations The Alexandrian text type is the second important text type. The text of this verse "there are three that bear record in heaven..." (KJV) is missing from every Greek manuscript in the world except for four late and very suspect manuscripts. Erasmus text and the many subsequent copies based on it came to be known as the "Received Text" (Textus Receptus). www.pilgrimworks.com /trans.htm   (3460 words)

The Byzantine Priority Hypothesis It is unfortunate that these non-critics have infected the arguments about the Byzantine text, as their irrational, unreasonable, and uncritical arguments serve only to muddy what should be a reasonable and fruitful debate. Note that it is perfectly possible that the Byzantine text could be late in one corpus and early in another). One cannot argue from the nature of transmission to the history of the text; the history of the text is too complex and peculiar for that. www.skypoint.com /~waltzmn/ByzPrior.html   (4979 words)

An Analysis of The King James Version Debate. A Plea for Realism Thesis 2: The argument that defends the Byzantine tradition by appealing to the fact that most extant manuscripts of the Greek New Testament attest to this Byzantine text-type, is logically fallacious and historically naive. Six of the Byzantine harmonizations are places where it includes a word (or words) found in a parallel passage that are omitted by the Alexandrian text. In the Greek text underlying the KJV in John, there were 32 places with the support of four or less of the 50+ manuscripts; of these, eleven were disagreements on whether or not an article (the) was to be placed before a word. www.purewords.org /kjb1611/html/kjvdeba.htm   (4412 words)

The Byzantine Text-Type and In The Byzantine Text-Type and New Testament Textual Criticism, Sturz shows why rejection of the Byzantine text is unjustified. With the advent of Westcott and Hort's work in the nineteenth century, the Byzantine text was soon considered obsolete and was rarely used by scholars. Part I discusses the theory of Westcott and Hort and cites their reasons for considering the Byzantine text secondary, discarding it, and formulating their own interpretation of the most valid text of the New Testament. www.bibleviews.com /sturz.html   (282 words)

BGreek: Byzantine Text Type the Byzantine text type existed before the fourth century. Next in thread: John Christopher DelHousaye: "Re: Byzantine Text Type" Next message: John Christopher DelHousaye: "Re: Byzantine Text Type" www.ibiblio.org /bgreek/test-archives/html4/1999-04/30884.html   (235 words)

BGreek: Re: Byzantine Text Type Maybe in reply to: Theodore H Mann: "Byzantine Text Type" Previous message: Theodore H Mann: "Byzantine Text Type" preserved only in the Byzantine text" (Greenlee, J. Harold. www.ibiblio.org /bgreek/test-archives/html4/1999-04/30885.html   (216 words)

The Error of King James Only. But despite this, Aland states even the Egyptian text was later subjected to the "corrosive effects" of the Byzantine text-type (Aland, pp.65,56). the Byzantine text is "the Koine text" (p.xx). However, these kinds of text clearly reflect that the New Testament Text had already begun to diverge in the independent copying period (prior to and, in part, due to the Diocletianic persecutions), but the divergence was not yet as highly pronounced or as "planned" as it would become during the Text-Type period. www.revneal.org /Writings/errorof.htm   (10055 words)

Some Thoughts For Evaluating the KJV/Majority Text vs. New Translations/Minority Text Debate Byzantine Text advocates often assert that many manuscript copies of the Scripture were corrupted in the early centuries of the church (pre-fourth-century), and these corrupted manuscripts are identified with the non-Byzantine Text-types, or particularly the Alexandrian Text-family which usually stands behind the modern translations. Although the two texts are more similar than are the Critical Text and the Textus Receptus (TR),5 the Byzantine Text differs from the TR in over 1,838 places, thus the reading of the KJV does not always reflect the reading of the Byzantine Text. If the text which was copied over and over to form the majority of all manuscripts during the Middle Ages was not as accurate as earlier manuscripts, then all those texts which flowed from it would also be inaccurate (the Byzantine Text). www.apostolic.net /biblicalstudies/kjvevaluation.htm   (5777 words)

ipedia.com: Alexandrian text-type Article The Byzantine texts read "God was manifest in the flesh", whereas Alexandrian texts, with support from the Old Latin, Vulgate, Peshitta, Western text-type and many early church fathers read "He was manifest in the flesh". Whilst the type of text is referred to as "Alexandrian" since most manuscripts of this early type appear to have been preserved by the dry climate of Egypt, the readings found in the Alexandrian text can generally be found in the textual traditions from all over the empire. The oldest near-complete manuscripts of the New Testament belong to this text-type, and are known as Codex Vaticanus in the Vatican library and Codex Sinaiticus in the British Museum. www.ipedia.com /alexandrian_text_type.html   (643 words)

Alexandrian text-type - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Byzantine texts read "God was manifest in the flesh", whereas Alexandrian texts, with support from the Old Latin, Vulgate, Peshitta, Western text-type and many early church fathers read "He was manifest in the flesh". The oldest near-complete manuscripts of the New Testament belong to this text-type, and are known as Codex Vaticanus in the Vatican library and Codex Sinaiticus in the British Museum. The Byzantine text is also the one found in modern Greek Orthodox editions, though this might simply be a matter of not wanting to break with tradition. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexandrian_text-type   (564 words)

Ephesians 2:21 in the United Bible Societies Greek New Testament, fourth edition, hereafter referred to as UBSGNT4, reads, “e)n w Also in favor of the reading in the text is the Byzantine text-type which is assumed to be based upon MSS of the fourth century. Though the former readings lie generally in the Alexandrian text-type their dates are much later than the most reliable witnesses of the same Alexandrian text-type. Finally, the Byzantine text, as already alluded to, comes from a tradition dating back to the fourth century, and its agreement with this preferred reading is well worth noting. www.geocities.com /Athens/Oracle/9539/eph2.html   (1079 words)

Translations and the Greek Text This text is a Byzantine type; that is, it represents a family of manuscripts that are mostly associated with the Constantinople area of modern Turkey. Although this type of text is obviously Egyptian in origin and home, it is not possible to maintain that Egypt had preserved an uncorrupted form of text, of which B is a characteristic example. Hort writes about the neutral text: "Not only were these readings not confined to Alexandria, but a local name suggests erroneous associations when applied to a text which owes its comparative isolation to the degeneracy of its neighbours."[46] Thus the neutral name slanted any discussion associated with this text and the Syrian or Western text-type. www.bibleteachings.org /authority-6.html   (17547 words)

Byzantine text-type Although the majority of New Testament textual critics now favor a text that is Alexandrian in complexion, especially after the publication of Westcott and Hort's edition, there remain some proponents of the Byzantine text-type as the type of text most similar to the autographs. Due to the pressure of his publisher to bring their edition to market before the competing Complutensian Polyglot, Erasmus was based his work on less than a half-dozen manuscripts from the Byzantine text-type, all of which dated from the twelfth century. Among those who believe that the Byzantine text is only a secondary witness to the autograph, there is some debate concerning the origin of the Byzantine text and the reason for its widespread use and homogeneity. www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/b/by/byzantine_text_type.html   (501 words)

The Greek Text of the New Testament This text is a representative of the Byzantine text-type, although many scholars consider it a poor representation. This text type is also refered to as the Majority Text because the majority of the surviving manuscripts are of this type. The Greek text underlying the KJV is based on a 16th century version of the Greek text known as the Textus Receptus or Received Text. home.wi.rr.com /rationlchristian/greektext.htm   (1001 words)

Text-Types Of The New Testament Manuscripts: Alexandrian ("Neutral"), Western, Byzantine & Caesarean That is, it is generally shorter than the text of other forms, and it does not exhibit the degree of grammatical and stylistic polishing that is characteristic of the Byzantine and, to a lesser extent, of the Caesarean type of text. One may also observe a certain striving after elegance of expression, a feature that is especially typical of the Byzantine type of text. The most important Greek manuscripts that present a Western type of text are codex Bezae (D) of the fifth or sixth century (containing the Gospels and Acts), codex Claromontanus (D) of the sixth century (containing the Pauline Epistles), and, for Mark 1:1 to 5:30, codex Washingtonianus (W) of the late fourth or early fifth century. www.islamic-awareness.org /Bible/Text/Mss/textype.html   (1434 words)

Text-Types Of The New Testament Manuscripts: Alexandrian ("Neutral"), Western, Byzantine & Caesarean That is, it is generally shorter than the text of other forms, and it does not exhibit the degree of grammatical and stylistic polishing that is characteristic of the Byzantine and, to a lesser extent, of the Caesarean type of text. The most important Greek manuscripts that present a Western type of text are codex Bezae (D) of the fifth or sixth century (containing the Gospels and Acts), codex Claromontanus (D) of the sixth century (containing the Pauline Epistles), and, for Mark 1:1 to 5:30, codex Washingtonianus (W) of the late fourth or early fifth century. Another Eastern type of text, current in and near Antioch, is preserved today chiefly in Old Syriac witnesses, namely the Sinaitic and the Curetonian manuscripts of the Gospels and in the quotations of Scripture contained in the works of Aphraates and Ephraem. www.islamic-awareness.org /Bible/Text/Mss/textype.html   (1434 words)

The Error of King James Only. the Byzantine text is "the Koine text" (p.xx). However, these kinds of text clearly reflect that the New Testament Text had already begun to diverge in the independent copying period (prior to and, in part, due to the Diocletianic persecutions), but the divergence was not yet as highly pronounced or as "planned" as it would become during the Text-Type period. The Alexandrian Text -- or, certainly, it's root in the Early "normal" text -- was the basis for the theoretical Caesarean text (of which Jerome writes), and the equally theoretical "Western Text" also exhibits influences from either the Alexandrian text or the Early "normal" and free texts. www.revneal.org /Writings/errorof.htm   (10055 words)

The Error of King James Only. the Byzantine text is "the Koine text" (p.xx). However, these kinds of text clearly reflect that the New Testament Text had already begun to diverge in the independent copying period (prior to and, in part, due to the Diocletianic persecutions), but the divergence was not yet as highly pronounced or as "planned" as it would become during the Text-Type period. The Alexandrian Text -- or, certainly, it's root in the Early "normal" text -- was the basis for the theoretical Caesarean text (of which Jerome writes), and the equally theoretical "Western Text" also exhibits influences from either the Alexandrian text or the Early "normal" and free texts. www.revneal.org /Writings/errorof.htm   (10055 words)

Byzantine text-type - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Although the majority of New Testament textual critics now favor a text that is Alexandrian in complexion, especially after the publication of Westcott and Hort's edition, there remain some proponents of the Byzantine text-type as the type of text most similar to the autographs. According to the preface to the New King James Version of the Bible, the Textus Receptus, the Alexandrian text-type and the Byzantine text-type are 85% identical. Among those who believe that the Byzantine text is only a secondary witness to the autograph, there is some debate concerning the origin of the Byzantine text and the reason for its widespread use and homogeneity. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Byzantine_text-type   (582 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us   Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.