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In textual criticism of the New Testament, the Alexandrian text-type is one of the main text types. It is the text type favored by the majority of modern textual critics and it is the basis for most modern (after 1900) Bible translations. Over 5,800 New Testament manuscripts have been classified into four groups by text type.
These manuscripts have almost no Byzantine influence, and often agree with the Alexandrian text-type (but are not necessarily Alexandrian themselves, for example 𝔓 45, 𝔓 46, Codex Vaticanus (B), and minuscule 1739). [4] Some 4th-century and earlier papyri and uncials are in this category, as are manuscripts of the Alexandrian text-type ...
Between this manuscript and both the Coptic and Syriac versions there is a remarkable coincidence. [41] According to Griesbach the manuscript follows three different editions: the Byzantine in the Gospels, the Western in the Acts and General epistles, and the Alexandrian in the Pauline epistles. Griesbach designated the codex by letter A. [41]
Most textual critics of the New Testament favor the Alexandrian text-type as the closest representative of the autographs for many reasons. One reason is that Alexandrian manuscripts are the oldest found; some of the earliest Church Fathers used readings found in the Alexandrian text. Another is that the Alexandrian readings are adjudged more ...
ƒ: Greek manuscripts family geo: Georgian versions goth: Gothic versions it: Italic/Vetus Latina lat: most Italic and Vulgate latt: all Italic and Vulgate 𝔓: papyrus 𝑙: individually numbered lectionary Lect: most or all numbered lectionaries parenthesized (): approximate reading rell: all other extant manuscripts slav: Slavic versions ...
Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus, two of the great uncial codices, representatives of the Alexandrian text-type, are considered excellent manuscript witnesses of the text of the New Testament. Most critical editions of the Greek New Testament give precedence to these two chief uncial manuscripts, and the majority of translations are based ...
Modern scholars contend that the shorter Alexandrian text is closer to the original, and the longer Western text is the result of later insertion of additional material into the text. [4]: 5–6 A third class of manuscripts, known as the Byzantine text-type, is often considered to have developed after the Western and Alexandrian types. While ...
Representation of Origen writing from a manuscript of In numeros homilia XXVII dated to c. 1160 Christian theological controversies The Origenist crises or Origenist controversies were two major theological controversies in early Christianity involving the teachings of followers of the third-century Alexandrian theologian Origen ( c. 184 – c ...