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Show Harold Scott dissatisfaction with the existing text, and many new critical be produced. Perhaps Karl Lachmann is the father of the present scientific method of arriving at a critical Greek text independent of the Greek Textus texts came to The edition upon which his reputation Constantine Tischendorf Receptus. rests is that of 1842-50. 1874), like Lachmann, textual study further. a German, carried the He Greek New Testament, published eight chiefly (1815principles of editions of the four editions of the Latin New Testament, and four editions of the Septuagint. His final edition of the Greek New Testament of 1869-72 with full textual apparatus provided the first critical Greek text based on the available Greek manuscripts. Tischendorf is best known as the discoverer in 1859 of the great uncial manuscript call Codex Sinaiticus, which was made available for general study in This uncial preserves a part of the Old Testament, a part of the apocrypha, the entire New Testament plus the Epistle of Barnabas and a part of the Shepherd of Hermas. It, 1862. like the Alexandrinus, is from the early now in the British Museum. It dates fourth century. Tischendorf had the use of it text of 1869-72. Two English his critical Greek in preparing scholars, B. F. Westcott and F. J. A. Hort, made use of the work of Tischendorf, and after years of labor, published in text that held the field for years and is the present time. In 1870, the revision of the King James version was voted by convocation. The work was done by a company of 1881 a critical Greek in active fifty-four tists, use at scholars which Congregationalists, Unitarians. scholars was body included Episcopalians, Bap Presbyterians, and American body of thirty Methodists, Two years later an organized which reviewed the work of the English body as it was produced and submitted to it in America. The revised version in the New Testament had the 305 |
