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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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New Testament text-type
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biblical manuscript family → textual tradition → |
| alsoKnownAs |
Egyptian text-type
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Neutral text → |
| associatedWithScholar |
Brooke Foss Westcott
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Bruce Metzger → Fenton John Anthony Hort → Kurt Aland → |
| characteristic |
avoidance of paraphrase
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concise readings → early manuscript attestation → less harmonized readings → minimal doctrinal expansion → preference for more difficult readings → tendency toward brevity → |
| consideredBy |
many textual critics
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| contrastedWith |
Byzantine text-type
→
Caesarean text-type → Western text-type → |
| evaluation |
often regarded as closest to the original New Testament text
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| fieldOfStudy |
New Testament textual criticism
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| geographicalAssociation |
Alexandria
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Egypt → |
| hasSubset |
proto-Alexandrian text
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| includesWitness |
Codex Alexandrinus
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Codex Sinaiticus → Codex Vaticanus → Papyrus 46 → Papyrus 66 → Papyrus 75 → |
| influenced |
modern Bible translations
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| influencedBy |
early Egyptian Christian scribal traditions
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| language |
Koine Greek
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| recognizedSince |
19th century scholarship
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| reliabilityAssessment |
generally considered highly reliable by critical scholars
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| textualFeature |
less conflated readings
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less harmonization between parallel Gospel accounts → omission of later liturgical additions → shorter endings in some passages → |
| timePeriod |
2nd century
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3rd century → 4th century → early Christian centuries → |
| usedIn |
Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece
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United Bible Societies Greek New Testament → critical editions of the Greek New Testament → |
Referenced by (4)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
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Byzantine text-type
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Western text-type → |
contrastedWith |
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Alexandrian text-type
("Egyptian text-type")
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alsoKnownAs |
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New Testament manuscripts
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haveMajorTextTypes |