New Testament text had developed in the period from the first century to around A.D. Now I want to jump forward in time from this diagram, which depicts a theory of how the The Caesarean Text is a text of the Gospels. Sometimes, though, the Caesarean Text features a variant which is neither Alexandrian Western manuscripts and Alexandrian manuscripts, and picking and choosing between the Where there were both Western and Alexandrian manuscripts (like Caesarea) – comparing The Caesarean Text seems to have mostly been a result of copyists – in a place The "Alexandrian" approach was basically, "Make the text clear by refining it."īecause of the nice climate of Egypt, most ancient manuscripts which contain the Alexandrian The text, removing repetitions and words and phrases which the copyists considered The Alexandrian Text contained grammatical refinements and sometimes "pruned" Also, some "Western" manuscripts show signs of doctrinal tampering, although the question of exactly who was behind the tampering has not been entirely resolved. The Western Text omits some phrases, too some of these omissions are attributable to sloppy copying. The "Western" approach was basically, "Make the text clear by adding to it." The message, not the words themselves, seems to have been the main thing to the Western copyists. The Western Text contained many expansions, harmonizations, and paraphrases. Each text-type had its own characteristics, which wereĭetermined in part by the approach taken by copyists to the text. Influenced the contents of the copies, in at least three different ways.Īs copies were made and re-copied in the first three centuries of the church, at least threeĭifferent types of text arose. There were also different ideas - held byĭifferent people in different areas - about how the text should be treated. Just as there areĭifferences between British English and American English, there were differences between Greekĭialects, and adjustments were made accordingly. Copies of the autographs were hand-copied in different locations.īut not everyone treated the text the same way when they made copies. By "autograph" I refer to the first manuscript to contain the text in its original, definitive, published form. If I did, we would probably have to toss out John 21:24 and Romans 16:22 - since John 21:24 seems to be written by someone other than John, and Romans 16:22 obviously originated with Tertius, not Paul. The first document to contain the original text isĬalled the "autograph." That is what the "A" in this box stands for.īy "autograph," I do not necessarily mean the text written by the mainĪuthor and only the text written by the main author. The history of the development of the New Testament begins (of course) The Development of the New Testament Text
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