Alexandrian text-type

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The Alexandrian text-type is a family of early and highly regarded New Testament manuscript traditions characterized by concise, less harmonized readings and often considered closest to the original text by many textual critics.

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Label Occurrences
Alexandrian text-type canonical 10
Alexandrian biblical tradition 1
Alexandrian readings 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf New Testament text-type
biblical manuscript family
textual tradition
alsoKnownAs Alexandrian text-type
surface form: Egyptian text-type

Neutral text
associatedWithScholar Brooke Foss Westcott
Bruce M. Metzger
surface form: Bruce Metzger

Fenton John Anthony Hort
Kurt Aland
characteristic avoidance of paraphrase
concise readings
early manuscript attestation
less harmonized readings
minimal doctrinal expansion
preference for more difficult readings
tendency toward brevity
consideredBy many textual critics
contrastedWith Byzantine text-type
Caesarean text-type
Western text-type
evaluation often regarded as closest to the original New Testament text
fieldOfStudy New Testament textual criticism
geographicalAssociation Alexandria, Egypt
surface form: Alexandria

Egypt
hasSubset proto-Alexandrian text
includesWitness Codex Alexandrinus
Codex Sinaiticus
Codex Vaticanus
Papyrus 46
Papyrus 66
Papyrus 75
influenced modern Bible translations
influencedBy early Egyptian Christian scribal traditions
language Koine Greek
recognizedSince 19th century scholarship
reliabilityAssessment generally considered highly reliable by critical scholars
textualFeature less conflated readings
less harmonization between parallel Gospel accounts
omission of later liturgical additions
shorter endings in some passages
timePeriod 2nd century
3rd century
4th century
early Christian centuries
usedIn Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece
United Bible Societies Greek New Testament
critical editions of the Greek New Testament

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

New Testament manuscripts haveMajorTextTypes Alexandrian text-type
Alexandrian text-type alsoKnownAs Alexandrian text-type
this entity surface form: Egyptian text-type
Western text-type contrastedWith Alexandrian text-type
Byzantine text-type contrastedWith Alexandrian text-type
Commentary on the Gospel of Luke influencedBy Alexandrian text-type
this entity surface form: Alexandrian biblical tradition
Rahlfs 911 textType Alexandrian text-type
Westcott and Hort text textTypeEmphasized Alexandrian text-type
Caesarean text-type hasReadingType Alexandrian text-type
this entity surface form: Alexandrian readings
Caesarean text-type influencedBy Alexandrian text-type
Majority text contrastedWith Alexandrian text-type
New Testament textual criticism studies Alexandrian text-type