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The Alexandrian text-type is witnessed to in the writings of Origen (185 – c. 253), Athanasius (296–298 – 373), Didymus (313 – 398) and Cyril of Alexandria (376 – 444). [5] The quotations of Clement of Alexandria also often agree with the Alexandrian text-type, although sometimes they contain readings which are instead common in the ...
The Byzantine text is also found in a few modern Eastern Orthodox editions, as the Byzantine textual tradition has continued in the Eastern Orthodox Church into the present time. The text used by the Orthodox Church is supported by late minuscule manuscripts. It is commonly accepted as the standard Byzantine text. [6]
[4] [5] Category IV contains the few manuscripts that follow the text of the Codex Bezae (D). These texts are of the Western text-type. [1] [2]: 383 Category V: "Manuscripts with a purely or predominantly Byzantine text." [4] [5] This category may be equated with the Byzantine text-type. [4] Byzantine and mostly Byzantine texts fall under this ...
It was one of the three Hort's arguments that the Byzantine text is the youngest. [1] Other textual critics gave more examples of conflation (Matthew 27:41, John 18:40, Acts 20:28, and Romans 6:12). Luke 24:53 "blessing God" (Alexandrian) "praising God" (Western) "praising and blessing God" (Byzantine) Metzger gave as an example Acts 20:28
John William Burgon was a famous advocate of the Byzantine priority theory. The Byzantine priority theory is a theory within Christian textual criticism held by a minority of textual critics. This view sees the Byzantine text-type as the New Testament's most accurate textual tradition, instead of the theorized Alexandrian or Western text types.
Alexandrian text-type: Westcott and Hort 1881, Westcott and Hort / [NA27 and UBS4 variants] 1864–94, Tischendorf 8th Edition, Nestle 1904 [14] ἐγὼ μέν (I indeed) – Byz ς. [13] Byz: Stephanus Textus Receptus 1550, Scrivener's Textus Receptus 1894, RP Byzantine Majority Text 2005, Greek Orthodox Church [14] Mark 1:8
In textual criticism of the New Testament, the Western text-type is one of the main text types.It is the predominant form of the New Testament text witnessed in the Old Latin and Syriac translations from the Greek, and also in quotations from certain 2nd and 3rd-century Christian writers, including Cyprian, Tertullian and Irenaeus.
Klaus Wachtel, “On the Relationship of the ‘Western Text’ and the Byzantine Tradition of Acts—A Plea Against the Text Type Concept,” in Novum Testamentum Graecum: Editio Critica Maior; The Acts of the Apostles, ed. Holger Strutwolf et al. (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2017), 3/3: 137–48, esp. 147.