Adversaria Critica Sacra

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Renowned nineteenth-century textual critic Frederick Scrivener presents sixty-three manuscripts of the Greek New Testament and other like documents in this volume. Of each of these, Scrivener provides a general account and estimate of their respective critical values, and then subjoins a comparison of the text of the chief of them with that of his own edition (Editio Major 1887) of Stephens' standard New Testament of 1550.

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Frederick Scrivener (1813-1891) was one of the great textual critics of the nineteenth century. A contemporary of Westcott and Hort, Scrivener differed from them in his preference for the Majority text. He played a key role in the formation of the English Revised Version. Scrivener is also known as one of the great publishers of ancient manuscripts.

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