Textus Receptus

The Textus Receptus (Latin: "received text") is the succession of printed Greek New Testament texts starting with Erasmus' Novum Instrumentum omne (1516) and including the editions of Stephanus, Beza, the Elzevir house, Colinaeus and Scrivener.[1][2][3][4]

Erasmus' Latin/Greek New Testament editions and annotations were a major influence for the original German Luther Bible and the translations of the New Testament into English by William Tyndale. Subsequent Textus Receptus editions constituted the main Greek translation-base for the King James Version, the Spanish Reina-Valera translation, the Czech Bible of Kralice, the Portuguese Almeida Recebida, the Dutch Statenvertaling, the Russian Synodal Bible and many other Reformation-era New Testament translations throughout Western, Northern and Central Europe.

Despite being viewed as an inferior form of the text of the New Testament by many modern textual critics, some Conservative Christians still view it as the most authentic text of the New Testament. This view is generally based upon a theological doctrine of the supernatural providential preservation of scripture.[5]

  1. ^ "In time, Erasmus' text became known as the "Textus receptus" (largely through a marketing strategy employed by the Elzevir publishers in 1633) - the "received text" implying verbal inspiration." Eisener, Wendell L. (1999). Matthew's Beatitudes in English: a comparative study in the history of translation (Thesis). Acadia University.
  2. ^ Epp, Eldon Jay (2020-11-30). Perspectives on New Testament Textual Criticism, Volume 2: Collected Essays, 2006–2017. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-44233-7.
  3. ^ Robertson, A. T. (2014-08-01). An Introduction to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament. Wipf and Stock Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4982-0089-9.
  4. ^ Doble, Peter; Kloha, Jeffrey (2014-07-24). Texts and Traditions: Essays in Honour of J. Keith Elliott. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-27393-1.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference :3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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