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		Denying to the Majority text any claim to represent the actual form of the original text, it is nevertheless unable to explain its rise, its comparative uniformity, and its dominance in any satisfactory manner.
		In any tradition where there are not major disruptions in transmissional history, the individual reading which has the earliest beginning is the most likely to survive in a majority of documents.
		When the distinctive textual theories of the proponents of the MT are considered, their contention that the majority of the MSS reflects the earliest form of the text breaks down on events historically significant to propagation of the text, since they have not allowed for these events in formulating their theory.
	members.aol.com /dvdmoore/html/majtext/txcrmthd.htm (3768 words)

	What about the Majority Text?
		The Majority Text is derived from the plurality of all existing Greek manuscripts; but because most of these manuscripts are late medieval manuscripts, there is a family resemblance between the Received Text and the Majority Text.
		These critical texts are based upon the oldest manuscripts and versions (from the 100's to the 600's), and agree with one another much more than any of them agree with the Received Text or the Majority Text.
		And so it is appropriate to say that the texts in question fall into two groups: (1) The kind of text found in the majority of medieval manuscripts (often called the Byzantine text-type); and (2) the ancient type of text which is exhibited in our oldest available manuscripts (often called the "Alexandrian" text-type).
	www.bible-researcher.com /majority.html (1560 words)

	The Majority Text
		The "majority text" position is a mediating position between the traditional view that embraces the Textus Receptus and the critical view that remains in search of the true text of the Greek New Testament, while confessing that it believes the search to be hopeless as to ever settling the issue with any finality.
		Rather they view the true text as being that which is supported in every reading by a majority of all the extent manuscripts and authorities.
		Since the vast majority of the texts are of the Byzantine family, of which the Textus Receptus is a particular example, they are therefore proposing a text that is very similar to the traditional or received text and are therefore allies against the critical text forces.
	www.amprpress.com /the_majority_text.htm (490 words)

	Some Thoughts For Evaluating the KJV/Majority Text vs. New Translations/Minority Text Debate
		The majority of believers are Trinitarian, and the doctrine has been the prevailing teaching for the longest period of Christian history, but upon evaluation of the evidence, we as Oneness Pentecostals have concluded that the doctrine of the Trinity is not the truth.
		The KJV is a "text," as is the RSV.
		All claims that the Critical Text tampers with the Word of God are contingent upon being able to prove that the Byzantine Text alone preserves the original wording of the apostles-a conclusion which is not easy to demonstrate because of the lack of evidence.
	www.apostolic.net /biblicalstudies/kjvevaluation.htm (5777 words)

	Textus Receptus & Majority Text - CWS Talk! - ChristianWebSite.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		...The majority text is also known as the Byzantine text because almost all of the extant copies were made during the period of the Byzantine Empire (395-1453), or as the Traditional text because it was the only Greek text in general use from about 700 to 1881.
		This view, that the majority text is the best text, was strongly advocated by John W. Burgon in the 1880's and 1890's as a refutation of Westcott and Hort's Greek NT text which followed Alexandrian manuscripts instead of Byzantine ones.
		However, a close comparison of the TR with the majority text reveals that some well-known and widely-quoted verses in the KJV either are not found or are significantly different in the majority text.
	www.botcw.com /talk/showthread.php?p=68172 (7962 words)

	TEXTUS RECEPTUS...THE MAJORITY TEXT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Foremost amongst these is the Traditional Received Text (Textus Receptus), also called the Byzantine Text or the Majority Text because it is based on the vast majority of manuscripts still in existence.
		Textus Receptus agrees with the vast majority of the 86,000+ citations from scripture by the early church fathers.
		This text culminates in the TEXTUS RECEPTUS or Received Text which is the basis for the King James Bible, which we know also as the Authorized Version....We describe this text with the term "Universal," because it represents the majority of extant MSS which represent the original autographs.
	www.angelfire.com /la/prophet1/textusr1.html (1643 words)

	Palm Bible :: Bible With You (EMTV) :: Version: 6.00 :: Bible: English Majority Text Version
		The English Majority Text Version was translated by Paul W. Esposito from the Majority Text Manuscripts used through history by translators of the Bible such as Erasmus, Luther, the forty-seven scholars who translated the King James Bible, the Geneva Bible, as well as, all of the reformers.
		The EMTV was translated by Paul W. Esposito from the Majority Text Manuscripts used through history by translators of the Bible such as Erasmus, Luther, the forty-seven scholars who translated the King James Bible, the Geneva Bible, as well as, all of the reformers.
		The text of the English Majority Text Version of the Bible is used by a courtesy of Paul W. Esposito, and Stauros Ministries, www.staurosministries.org.
	www.gmpsoft.com /product.php?id=b_emtv (2165 words)

	Original Manuscripts, the Majority Text, and Translations
		The Received Text belongs to the manuscripts of the Majority Text, but is not perfectly identical with it.
		We have been told that a few texts upon which the new translations are based are better than the majority of texts upon which the King James and the New King James Versions are based.
		The Byzantine Text theory, which fully adheres to the doctrine of divine providential preservation of the Scriptures, provides a superior text, and translations should be based upon it, not upon the Alexandrian Text.
	gospelpedlar.com /articles/Bible/kjv_manuscript.html (4974 words)

	Byzantine Majority Greek New Testament in HTML
		A growing number of scholars and Bible readers have come to favor what is known as the Byzantine Majority Text (similar to the Church of Greece text of 1904, in use by the Greek Orthodox Church).
		While the Majority Text is not exactly the same as the Textus Receptus of the 1500's, it is much closer to it than to the Critical text (represented by Westcott-Hort, Nestle, and the United Bible Societies).
		Again, the two Majority Texts presently available are very close to one another, to the Textus Receptus, and to the Church of Greece text, in most of the crucial passages where one finds that the Westcott&Hort/Nestle Critical texts follow a different reading.
	www.tricountyi.net /~randerse/BYZmenu.htm (678 words)

	CWS Talk! - ChristianWebSite.com - View Single Post - Textus Receptus & Majority Text
		But the TR is very close to Majority text, much closer than the CT to Majority or even the CT to the TR.
		Second, the majority text or even the TR is not based on ‘manuscripts’, or ‘5,000 manuscripts’, but 5,000 fragments of manuscripts’, some as small as a few lines!
		By the time the "Minority Text" (as you term it; on my site I call it the "Critical Text" - CT) and the Majority Text (MT) were developed, many more and earlier manuscripts of the NT were discovered, including many more copies of the Revelation.
	www.botcw.com /talk/showpost.php?p=68637&postcount=19 (3435 words)

	MOVING AWAY FROM PRESERVED SCRIPTURE: EXAMINING THE HODGES-FARSTAD MAJORITY TEXT
		This is another attempt to challenge the Received Greek Text with a “Majority Text.” The Byzantine Greek Text was the one used in the Greek Byzantine Empire until the fall of Constantinople in the 15th century.
		An edition of the Majority Text was published in the USA by Z. Hodges and A.L. Farstad in 1982, and is a valuable tool of reference” (Andrew Brown, letter to D.W. Cloud, April 4, 1984).
		Further, the Majority Text position teaches the Bible student that he needs to do textual criticism, that he needs to search for and recover the Apostolic Text to some extent, that he needs to be on a “quest” for a definitive text.
	www.wayoflife.org /articles/majoritytext.htm (12482 words)

	Majority Text
		But the situation relating to texts is not nearly that complicated.
		Science and archeology and papyrology continue to speak loudly about which New Testament texts in Greek are the real ones and which ones are the fraudulent ones.
		The Text of the Bible found in the majority of those Greek manuscripts is the text of the King James Bible.
	www.exorthodoxforchrist.com /majority_text.htm (728 words)

	TR vs Majority Text! - BaptistBoard.com
		The TR was originally based on 7 mss from the Byzantine text type, the Majority text based on all (about 4,000) manuscripts of the Byzantine text type.
		Well, the majority of the Byzantine witness is lacking, but there is still substantial testimony supporting the reading.
		I found that the vast majority of the differences in the two were very minor and had nothing to do with the translation.
	www.baptistboard.com /showthread.php?t=2594 (932 words)

	The Error of King James Only.
		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 Vulgate text of the New Testament beyond the Gospels is not found until the early fifth century in the writings of Pelagius and his followers [and, hence, it wasn't done by Jerome at all].
		the Byzantine text is "the Koine text" (p.xx).
	www.revneal.org /Writings/errorof.htm (10055 words)

	Comparisons between The Majority (KJV) and Minority (NIV) Texts
		This chart will compare the difference between the Minority Text (which are based upon mainly 2 corrupted New Testament manuscripts) and the Majority Text (which are based upon over 5,000 New Testament manuscripts).
		For this study, the King James Version (KJV) New Testament will be used, since the KJV is based upon the Majority Text, and all bibles that use the Majority Text are relevant to these readings.
		In the Majority Text, Paul says that the legalistic trouble makers should be cut off.
	www.ecclesia.org /truth/m-m.html (2976 words)

	IRRBS: The Majority Text (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This was a collection of essays gathered together to further the debate surrounding the call to revive the Byzantine, or what some call the Majority Text (we at the Institute call this the Ecclesiastical Text).
		This announcement was in response to a book by Wilbur Pickering, titled: The Identity of the New Testament Text, a debate that appeared in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (vols.
		The Introduction to this collection offers an assessment of the so-called Majority Text school out of mainly Dallas Theological Seminary.
	kuyper.org /thetext/majtext.html (154 words)

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		This publication of The Greek New Testament According to the Majority Text marks the first time in the twentieth century that a critical edition of the Greek New Testament has used the vast bulk of extant manuscripts as a basis for its text.
		This text therefore represents a sharp departure from the kind of text found in the currently popular third edition of the United Bible Societies Greek Testament and in the twenty-sixth edition of the Nestle-Aland text.
		The Majority Text New Testament abandons the one-hundred-year-old theories of Westcott and Hort and the resulting reliance on a few older Egyptian-based manuscripts.
	www.logos.com /ebooks/details/{524239E4-44C7-4967-9300-EBFB0CC4B9F1} (258 words)

	Trinity Foundation: Explaining God, man, Bible, salvation, philosophy, theology.
		was the Greek New Testament text in general use throughout the greater part of the Byzantine period (312-1453).
		Technically, there is a slight distinction between the Alexandrian Text and the Critical Text, but for the purpose of this article, they are considered to be basically the same.
		The Byzantine Text is so called because the majority of its manuscripts come from the eastern Greek-speaking church in the Byzantine Empire.
	www.trinityfoundation.org /journal.php?id=197 (4951 words)

	blog.kennypearce.net: "According to the Majority Text..."
		Because of this situation, it turned out that the Majority Text had been out of print since the year I was born!
		That said, there are a few significant differences, such as 1 Timothy 3:16, where the ommission of a theta-omicron and the addition of a rough breathing mark in the Alexandrian Text changes the phrase "God was manifested in the flesh" to "Who was manifested in the flesh".
		With regard to differences even this small, I think it ridiculous that translators rely on a small number of manuscripts (hundreds) found only in a small geographical area (Egypt) rather than an enormous number of manuscripts (thousands) found all over the Roman world.
	blog.kennypearce.net /archives/000011.html (714 words)

	MajorityText.org
		I hereby request membership in the Majority Text Society.
		I agree with the Majority Text position or I wish to cooperate in testing it.
		Enclosed is my tax-deductable (U.S.A. only) contribution to the ministry of the Majority Text Society in the amount of $
	www.majoritytext.org /membership3.htm (80 words)

	Byzantine Majority Text: Changes and Alternate Readings
		The two "Changes" pages below list the changes that were made from the first edition of the Byzantine Majority Text (1991) to the second edition (publication forthcoming).
		The first edition of the Analytical Literal Translation (ALT) was based on the first edition of the Byzantine text; the second edition of the ALT on the second edition of the Byzantine text.
		These represent places where the Byzantine Greek texts are closely divided.
	www.dtl.org /alt/main/byzantine.htm (178 words)

	Majority Text - In English at MajorityText.com
		English Majority Text Version of the Holy Bible New Testament
		Contact Paul Esposito, translator of the English Majority Text Version
		Scripture taken from the English Majority Text Translation of the Holy Bible (EMTV)
	www.majoritytext.com (67 words)

	SermonAudio.com - Majority Greek Text Refuted-2
		• Pastor D. Waite, Th.D., Ph.D. KJB #3-OT #2 & NT #1 Texts
		Majority Text textus receptus Westcott Hort KJB BFT King James Bible Nestle Aland Hodges Farstad
		Give not thy tongue too great a liberty, lest it take thee prisoner.
	www.sermonaudio.com /sermoninfo.asp?sermonID=22804172237 (319 words)

	English Majority Text Translation of the Holy Bible
		English Majority Text Translation of the Holy Bible
		Now available--The updated EMTV Greek Study Bible in a loose-leaf wide margin edition!!
		Download and/or view an updated version of the EMTV at Majority Text.com!
	www.emtvonline.com (72 words)

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