KJV / AV

Steven Craig Miller scmiller at www.plantnet.com
Sun Dec 19 07:33:50 EST 1999


To: C. E. Core,

<< The KJV uses the Byzantine text, which includes the majority of 
manuscripts and the AV, which was a response in America to England's 
Revised Version (RV) uses the Alexandrian text, some of which is older, it 
was revised by Wescott and Hort, and was used for these two newer 
translations. >>

The abbreviation "AV" is used to refer to the KJV. It stands for 
"Authorized Version." You are thinking of the ASV [1901] = American 
Standard Version which is the American revision of the RV [1881-85] = 
Revised Version, sometime referred to as the ERV [1881-85] = English 
Revised Version.

-Steven Craig Miller
Alton, Illinois (USA)
scmiller at www.plantnet.com
Disclaimer: "I'm just a simple house-husband (with no post-grad degree), 
what do I know?"




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