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The Textual History of the New Testament and the Bible Translator

Jim Wed, 04/19/17 8:30 pm
Textual Criticism
Church and Biblical History

… many of the scribes of the NT manuscripts perceived their own work in a similar light to many Bible translators today, since they considered clarity of communication to be one of their goals. For this reason, they often made emendations of a sort similar to those that are recommended to contemporary translators.

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