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In the textual criticism of the New Testament, the Byzantine text-type (also called Majority Text, Traditional Text, Ecclesiastical Text, Constantinopolitan Text, Antiocheian Text, or Syrian Text) is one of the main text types. It is the form found in the largest number of surviving manuscripts of the Greek New Testament.
Jan 4, 2022 · The Majority Text, also known as the Byzantine and Ecclesiastical Text, is a method of determining the original reading of a Scripture by discovering what reading occurs in a majority of the manuscripts.
Dec 22, 2021 · The Byzantine Text Version follows an “optimal equivalence” philosophy of translation, employing a literary style that is reminiscent of the Tyndale-King James legacy while flowing smoothly and naturally in modern English. It is translated from the Byzantine (Majority) Greek text edited by Robinson and Pierpont.
- On February 21, 1990, Wilbur N. Pickering, president of the Majority Text Society, gave a lecture at Dallas Theological Seminary on the majority text and the original text.
- Zane C. Hodges, “A Defense of the Majority-Text” (Dallas: Dallas Seminary Book Room, n.d.) , p. 1.
- Daniel B. Wallace, “Some Second Thoughts on the Majority Text,” Bibliotheca Sacra 146 (July–September 1989): 270–90.
- Edited by Zane C. Hodges and Arthur L. Farstad (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982).
Apr 11, 2022 · The modern version of the Byzantine text is Textus Receptus, printed by Desiderius Erasmus in Basel in 1516. The King James Version of the Bible , ordered by James I of England (r. 1603-1625), and other translations from the era of the Protestant Reformation used this text.
- The term "text-type" refers to the script used in copying the New Testament text. Text-types are of primary interest to biblical scholars.
- The main New Testament text types are Alexandrian, Western, and Byzantine. Some scholars add a fourth, Caesarean.
- New Testament text-types allow scholars to compare passages using different text-types in order to make the most accurate translations.
- The oldest text-type is Alexandrian, dating to c. 200 CE.
Nov 13, 2019 · The Byzantine text-type (also called Majority Text , Traditional Text , Ecclesiastical Text , Constantinopolitan Text , Antiochian Text, or Syrian Text) is one of several text-types used in textual criticism to describe the textual character of Greek New Testament manuscripts.
The Byzantine text-type (also called Majority, Traditional, Ecclesiastical, Constantinopolitan, or Syrian) is one of several text-types used in textual criticism to describe the textual character of Greek New Testament manuscripts. It is the form found in the largest number of surviving manuscripts.
