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.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alexandrian text-type canonical | 10 |
| Alexandrian biblical tradition | 1 |
| Alexandrian readings | 1 |
| Egyptian text-type | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Alexandrian text-type Context triple: [New Testament manuscripts, haveMajorTextTypes, Alexandrian text-type]
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A.
Textus Receptus
Textus Receptus is a traditional printed Greek New Testament text compiled in the 16th century that became the primary basis for many early Protestant Bible translations.
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B.
Codex Sinaiticus
Codex Sinaiticus is one of the oldest and most complete surviving manuscripts of the Christian Bible, written in Greek on parchment in the 4th century.
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Codex Alexandrinus
Codex Alexandrinus is a 5th-century Greek manuscript of the Bible, notable as one of the oldest and most complete surviving copies of both the Old and New Testaments.
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Septuagint
The Septuagint is an ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures that became the primary Old Testament text for early Christians and Greek-speaking Jews.
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E.
Codex Vaticanus
Codex Vaticanus is a 4th-century Greek biblical manuscript held in the Vatican Library and regarded as one of the oldest and most important witnesses to the text of the Bible.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexandrian text-type Target entity description: 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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A.
Textus Receptus
Textus Receptus is a traditional printed Greek New Testament text compiled in the 16th century that became the primary basis for many early Protestant Bible translations.
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B.
Codex Sinaiticus
Codex Sinaiticus is one of the oldest and most complete surviving manuscripts of the Christian Bible, written in Greek on parchment in the 4th century.
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C.
Codex Alexandrinus
Codex Alexandrinus is a 5th-century Greek manuscript of the Bible, notable as one of the oldest and most complete surviving copies of both the Old and New Testaments.
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D.
Septuagint
The Septuagint is an ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures that became the primary Old Testament text for early Christians and Greek-speaking Jews.
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E.
Codex Vaticanus
Codex Vaticanus is a 4th-century Greek biblical manuscript held in the Vatican Library and regarded as one of the oldest and most important witnesses to the text of the Bible.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New Testament text-type
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biblical manuscript family ⓘ textual tradition ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Alexandrian text-type
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surface form:
Egyptian text-type
Neutral text ⓘ |
| associatedWithScholar |
Brooke Foss Westcott
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Bruce M. Metzger ⓘ
surface form:
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 ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
Byzantine text-type
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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
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surface form:
Alexandria
Egypt ⓘ |
| hasSubset | proto-Alexandrian text ⓘ |
| includesWitness |
Codex Alexandrinus
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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
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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 ⓘ |
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Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Egyptian text-type
this entity surface form:
Alexandrian biblical tradition
this entity surface form:
Alexandrian readings
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