[B-Greek] Byzantine text

Jody Barnard jbnard at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Feb 3 08:22:59 EST 2004


 --- Polycarp66 at aol.com wrote: > In a message dated
2/2/2004 8:11:52 AM Eastern
> Standard Time, 
> jbnard at yahoo.co.uk writes:
> Is the greek preserved in the byzantine text type
> different from the Koine greek that the NT authors
> wrote in?
> _________
> 
> No.  The Byzantine text tradition is simply one of
> the text traditions that 
> developed. Most scholarship today relies on a
> critical text which attempts to 
> reconstruct what might approximate to the original
> by means of various 
> criteria.  One of these is that a reading not be
> limited to one geographical area.  
> The Byzantine text represents a text which evolved
> in the eastern churches under 
> the Byzantine Empire -- hence the name.  
> 
> gfsomsel


Thank you,

could you also tell me if and to what extent the
transition from Koine to Modern greek is reflected in
the manuscript tradition?

Jody Barnard
>  

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