Byzantine text-type
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The Byzantine text-type is a major textual tradition of the Greek New Testament characterized by a relatively uniform and later standardized form of the text that became dominant in the medieval Byzantine Empire.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Byzantine text-type canonical | 8 |
| Byzantine manuscript tradition | 3 |
| Byzantine Majority Text | 1 |
| Byzantine textform | 1 |
| Kappa (K) family of manuscripts | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T285582 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Byzantine text-type Context triple: [New Testament manuscripts, haveMajorTextTypes, Byzantine text-type]
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A.
Alexandrian text-type
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece
Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece is a critically edited scholarly edition of the Greek New Testament widely used as a standard reference in biblical studies and modern Bible translations.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Byzantine text-type Target entity description: The Byzantine text-type is a major textual tradition of the Greek New Testament characterized by a relatively uniform and later standardized form of the text that became dominant in the medieval Byzantine Empire.
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A.
Alexandrian text-type
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece
Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece is a critically edited scholarly edition of the Greek New Testament widely used as a standard reference in biblical studies and modern Bible translations.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Greek New Testament textual tradition
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New Testament text-type ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Antiochian text-type
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Majority text ⓘ Syrian text-type ⓘ |
| associatedWithScholar |
John Chrysostom (patristic citations)
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Lucian of Antioch (traditionally, though debated) ⓘ |
| basisOf |
Patriarchal Text of the Greek Orthodox Church
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Robinson–Pierpont Byzantine Greek New Testament editions ⓘ |
| characterizedBy |
conflation of earlier readings
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expansion of liturgical and explanatory material ⓘ fuller and smoother readings ⓘ harmonizing tendencies between parallel passages ⓘ later standardized form of the Greek New Testament text ⓘ relative textual uniformity ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
Alexandrian text-type
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Caesarean text-type ⓘ Western text-type ⓘ |
| discussedIn |
Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece
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surface form:
Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece apparatus
United Bible Societies Greek New Testament ⓘ
surface form:
United Bible Societies Greek New Testament apparatus
|
| dominantIn |
Greek-speaking Eastern Christianity
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medieval Byzantine Empire ⓘ |
| evaluatedBy | modern textual critics as generally secondary to Alexandrian readings ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | New Testament textual criticism ⓘ |
| geographicalCenter |
Antioch
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Byzantium ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
tendency to add explicit subjects and objects
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tendency to clarify ambiguous readings ⓘ tendency to expand Christological titles ⓘ tendency to harmonize Gospel parallels ⓘ |
| hasSubset |
Byzantine subgroups identified by von Soden and others
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Byzantine text-type self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Kappa (K) family of manuscripts
|
| influenced |
King James Version
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surface form:
King James Version New Testament
Textus Receptus ⓘ early printed editions of the Greek New Testament ⓘ |
| language | Koine Greek ⓘ |
| notableManuscript |
Codex Alexandrinus
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surface form:
Codex Alexandrinus (in the Gospels)
Codex Basilensis ⓘ Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (partly) ⓘ Codex Washingtonianus (in parts) ⓘ |
| preservedIn |
Byzantine text-type
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Byzantine manuscript tradition
later uncials and minuscules ⓘ |
| supportedBy |
many lectionaries
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most medieval minuscules ⓘ the majority of later Greek New Testament manuscripts ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
dominant by the Middle Ages
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from about the 4th century CE onward ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Byzantine liturgy
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Greek Orthodox Church ⓘ |
| viewedAs | standard medieval Greek New Testament text ⓘ |
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Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Byzantine manuscript tradition
this entity surface form:
Kappa (K) family of manuscripts
this entity surface form:
Byzantine Majority Text
this entity surface form:
Byzantine textform
Robinson–Pierpont Byzantine Greek New Testament editions
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Byzantine text-type
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this entity surface form:
Byzantine manuscript tradition
this entity surface form:
Byzantine manuscript tradition