[B-Greek] Scrivener 1894 errors

Joseph Weaks j.weaks at tcu.edu
Fri Jan 30 00:12:39 EST 2004


On Jan 29, 2004, at 7:30 PM, Alan Bunning wrote:

> I was wondering whether someone could help me pin down the exact text 
> of
> Scrivener's 1894 Textus Receptus..... I do not have
> access to a printed version of Scrivener's text and cannot find one 
> anywhere
> in town. The closest thing I had to resolve the discrepancies was 
> Green's
> Interlinear which also claims to use Scrivener's text.


Alan,
It's also good to remind ourselves that the possession of a reprint of 
a text will not settle this issue. E-texts are more volatile (and quite 
often haphazardly compiled), for sure, but printed text are not 
automatically reliable/identical either.
When I was studying in Wolfenbüttel with their overwhelming collection, 
spending time with various printed texts, including Erasmus' 1516 GNT, 
drove this point home.  With perhaps the exception of facsimiles, each 
reprint will inevitably vary.
It'd be interesting to see if any of the straying from Scrivener that 
you discover was realignment with other various TR versions, since 
Scrivener's is a backwards translation and a text completely unattested 
elsewhere.

Joe Weaks
Brite Divinity School, Ft. Worth, Tx.




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