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Show U ni tarianism in Utah advantage of a Greek text that knowledge of the manuscripts was not true gave effect the available to of its time; something that of any previous English New Testament. were members of the English committee Westcott and Hort and the results of their years of research were available to that body. The committee also had the accumulated aids of the revisers of earlier contains more that 36,000 The Revised Version versions. English from the changes Version in the New Testament alone. mittee was disappointed of its suggestions that at the King James The American com small number comparatively given effect in the published Revised Version. The American committee had entered into were agreement with the an revisers not to assist in English a further revision for fourteen years. The Americans were sensitive to the many archaisms and Anglicisms that the English body retained. Revised Version it set Very early after the publication of the to work preparing a recension. With the aid of other American scholars, not American committee, it went far original members of the beyond mendations the first committee had made revisers. An enormous amount American Standard Bible Bible was the the recom English done and the the public in 1901. publication probably the most nearly printed in the English language. was At the time of its perfect of work to it given to was writing of the New Testament, papyrus, reed, was the common writing material of At the time of the made from water the Mediterranean world. eastern of papyrus rolls, found from time or to bound as time in a Manuscripts book or form codex have been Italy, Egypt, and Mediterranean Sea, since the middle of the east of the eighteenth cen Oxyrhynchus tury. and in other places in upper Egypt rich deposits of papyri. Among them was one called "Sayings of Iesus" dating about In 1897 Grenfell and Hunt discovered at 306 in the |
