Majority Text

Jim West jwest at Highland.Net
Fri Sep 11 07:32:03 EDT 1998


At 07:54 AM 9/11/98 -0700, you wrote:
>What is the status/feeling/argument regarding the Majority Text
>approach as opposed to NA27, UBS4?
>
>Martin Gallagher
>Annapolis, MD 


The maj. Text is based on late, byzantine mss-  NA 27 is based on early
papyri mss and superior Alexandrian texts.   In short- the Majority text
counts witnesses while NA weighs their value.


Best,

Jim

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Jim West, ThD
Quartz Hill School of Theology
jwest at highland.net





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