05-14-2013, 02:53 AM
I'll have to edit my above post...those 3,000 plus variants are found in the 4 Gospels alone.
According to Dean Burgon: "It is in fact easier to find two consecutive verses in which these two MSS differ the one from the other, than two consecutive verses in which they entirely agree."
According to Herman C. Hoskier, there are, without counting errors of iotacism, 3,036 textual variations between Sinaiticus and Vaticanus in the text of the Gospels alone, enumerated as follows:
Matthew: 656
Mark: 567
Luke: 791
John: 1022
According to a number of contemporary Greek scholars, these two manuscripts are said to represent two different textual families of the Alexandrian text-type. The Codex Sinaiticus' John 1:1?8:38 represents another difference: the Western text-type. Additionally, chapters 16 and 21 in John include some Western readings, hence why the number of differences between these two codices in John is greater than in the other Gospels.
The "Alexandrian text type" is not actually the older text form, in many instances, where I have found many Byzantine variants qouted in much older sources than these two Unical Ms, which are said to retain the oldest Greek text form... In many places...not so.
Jerome knew about these Ms...and he didn't use them...the Greek Orthodox Church knows about them, and yet they have always chosen to stick with the Byzantine Text type, which they have always used.
Like it or not...these two Ms., are mistake filled, incomplete texts of corrupted copies of the Greek version of the New Testament.
I'm with the Greek Orthodox Church on this judgment, and they should know...it's their NT version. In recent years, the Church of Rome has abandoned their Latin Vulgate text, which is not from these two Ms., and have followed Westcot and Hort in the text of their NAB and in their use of the NRSV in their study Bibles. Many of the Protestant groups have also abandoned the Byzantine text form, for the Alexandrian version in recent years, as you might know. Which of their new translations do you say is the best? <!-- s
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So... I'll ask you the question again, Mike. Which Greek version text type do you say is the one from Apostolic times? The Western, The Byzantine, or The Alexandrian?
Shlama,
Chuck
According to Dean Burgon: "It is in fact easier to find two consecutive verses in which these two MSS differ the one from the other, than two consecutive verses in which they entirely agree."
According to Herman C. Hoskier, there are, without counting errors of iotacism, 3,036 textual variations between Sinaiticus and Vaticanus in the text of the Gospels alone, enumerated as follows:
Matthew: 656
Mark: 567
Luke: 791
John: 1022
According to a number of contemporary Greek scholars, these two manuscripts are said to represent two different textual families of the Alexandrian text-type. The Codex Sinaiticus' John 1:1?8:38 represents another difference: the Western text-type. Additionally, chapters 16 and 21 in John include some Western readings, hence why the number of differences between these two codices in John is greater than in the other Gospels.
The "Alexandrian text type" is not actually the older text form, in many instances, where I have found many Byzantine variants qouted in much older sources than these two Unical Ms, which are said to retain the oldest Greek text form... In many places...not so.
Jerome knew about these Ms...and he didn't use them...the Greek Orthodox Church knows about them, and yet they have always chosen to stick with the Byzantine Text type, which they have always used.
Like it or not...these two Ms., are mistake filled, incomplete texts of corrupted copies of the Greek version of the New Testament.
I'm with the Greek Orthodox Church on this judgment, and they should know...it's their NT version. In recent years, the Church of Rome has abandoned their Latin Vulgate text, which is not from these two Ms., and have followed Westcot and Hort in the text of their NAB and in their use of the NRSV in their study Bibles. Many of the Protestant groups have also abandoned the Byzantine text form, for the Alexandrian version in recent years, as you might know. Which of their new translations do you say is the best? <!-- s
--><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s -->So... I'll ask you the question again, Mike. Which Greek version text type do you say is the one from Apostolic times? The Western, The Byzantine, or The Alexandrian?
Shlama,
Chuck