Sunday, April 20, 2025

Tyndale's Textual Criticism

 #Acts #ActsOfTheApostles #Tyndale #WilliamTyndale #TextualCriticism Acts7:16- From what source text did Tyndale translate this verse? https://bibletranslation.ws/tyndale-acts-7-16/ 

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Wednesday, April 9, 2025

2nd Edition of Revelation is Published

 I have finished and published my 2nd edition of Revelation.  Almost every footnote has been expanded, revised, or corrected.  Mainly because I purchased the Editio Critica Major, but also because I have looked personally at lots of manuscript images myself.  There are also an increased number of footnotes, now 542 of them.  The critical apparatus, including the endnotes, cite 86 Greek manuscripts, 17 Greek New Testament editions, as well as early versions and Fathers. The main editions collated are the ECM, NA28, SBL, TH (Tyndale House), Robinson-Pierpont, Byzantine Greek, Antoniades, and the Textus Receptus. When the dozens of editions of the Textus Receptus disagree with Scrivener 1894, this is noted, for 5 Erasmus editions, Stephens 1550, Beza, Elzevir, Aldus, Colinaeus, Bengel, and the Complutensian Polyglot. At the end of the book are several tables, including a list of all handwritten Greek manuscripts of the Apocalypse of John, now updated to include more than 330.  Another thing that is new is I have added the readings of the Arabic text found in Walton's Polyglot, though not in all variants.  Further, I downloaded and possess my own copies of the main Vulgate texts, and so now their readings are included in many more footnotes than before.  I did not put "2nd Edition" in the book title or cover, because then Amazon would make me use a new and different ISBN, and a new link to the book would generate, and all my old links to Amazon on the PDFs that have been downloaded for years, would not lead to the 2nd Edition.  However, inside the book in the first couple pages, it says "Produced April 7, 2025."  That's how you can know it is the 2nd Edition.

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Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Revelation 2nd Edition progress

 I am still working on my 2nd edition of Revelation.  I decided to add in the TC footnotes the readings of all TR editions, that is, Scrivener 1894, Erasmus Eds 1-5, Aldus, Colinaeus, Stephens 1550, Elzevir, Beza, Bengel, and the Complutensian Polyglot.  I am adding also the readings of the Arab text in Walton's Polyglot, where applicable.  Furthermore, I am indicating where possible the readings of the following important Latin Vulgate manuscripts or editions: Codex Amiatinus, Codex Fuldensis, Codex Harleianus, and the editions Stuttgart, Wordsworth-White, and Clementine.  This is tedious and time-consuming, and I am burnt out on it.  It's not as pleasurable as translating.  So, I do not expect to be finished and publish my 2nd Edition in paper and ink until late March 2025.  But I am uploading the updated PDF usually around twice a week, and you can always download the updated PDF of Revelation with Greek here: https://bibletranslation.ws/trans/revwgrk.pdf