Byzantine text-type

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Greek New Testament textual tradition New Testament text-type

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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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form	Occurrences
Byzantine manuscript tradition	1
Kappa (K) family of manuscripts	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Greek New Testament textual tradition ⓘ New Testament text-type ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Antiochian text-type ⓘ Majority text ⓘ Syrian text-type ⓘ
associatedWithScholar	John Chrysostom (patristic citations) ⓘ Lucian of Antioch (traditionally, though debated) ⓘ
basisOf	Patriarchal Text of the Greek Orthodox Church ⓘ Robinson–Pierpont Byzantine Greek New Testament editions ⓘ
characterizedBy	conflation of earlier readings ⓘ 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 ⓘ Caesarean text-type ⓘ Western text-type ⓘ
discussedIn	Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece ⓘ 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 ⓘ medieval Byzantine Empire ⓘ
evaluatedBy	modern textual critics as generally secondary to Alexandrian readings ⓘ
fieldOfStudy	New Testament textual criticism ⓘ
geographicalCenter	Antioch ⓘ Byzantium ⓘ
hasFeature	tendency to add explicit subjects and objects ⓘ tendency to clarify ambiguous readings ⓘ tendency to expand Christological titles ⓘ tendency to harmonize Gospel parallels ⓘ
hasSubset	Byzantine subgroups identified by von Soden and others ⓘ Byzantine text-type self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Kappa (K) family of manuscripts
influenced	King James Version ⓘ surface form: King James Version New Testament Textus Receptus ⓘ early printed editions of the Greek New Testament ⓘ
language	Koine Greek ⓘ
notableManuscript	Codex Alexandrinus ⓘ surface form: Codex Alexandrinus (in the Gospels) Codex Basilensis ⓘ Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (partly) ⓘ Codex Washingtonianus (in parts) ⓘ
preservedIn	Byzantine text-type self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Byzantine manuscript tradition later uncials and minuscules ⓘ
supportedBy	many lectionaries ⓘ most medieval minuscules ⓘ the majority of later Greek New Testament manuscripts ⓘ
timePeriod	dominant by the Middle Ages ⓘ from about the 4th century CE onward ⓘ
usedIn	Byzantine liturgy ⓘ Greek Orthodox Church ⓘ
viewedAs	standard medieval Greek New Testament text ⓘ

Referenced by (4)

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

Byzantine text-type → hasSubset → Byzantine text-type self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kappa (K) family of manuscripts

New Testament manuscripts → haveMajorTextTypes → Byzantine text-type ⓘ

Byzantine text-type → preservedIn → Byzantine text-type self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Byzantine manuscript tradition

Textus Receptus → textType → Byzantine text-type ⓘ