Greek New Testament (Scrivener 1894) (Annotated)
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Author(s)Frederick Scrivener
ISBN / ASINB005F50HJY
ISBN-13978B005F50HJ2
Sales Rank102,911
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- Annotated with suggested further readings and in-line links to additional web content
The Reverend Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener, LL.D. (September 29, 1813, Bermondsey, Surrey – October 30, 1891, Hendon, Middlesex) was an important text critic of the New Testament and a member of the English New Testament Revision Committee which produced the Revised Version of the Bible. He was prebendary of Exeter, and vicar of Hendon.
Graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1835 after studying at Southwark,[1] he became a teacher of classics at a number of schools in southern England, and from 1846 to 1856 was headmaster of a school in Falmouth, Cornwall. He was also for 15 years rector of Gerrans, Cornwall.
Initially making a name for himself editing the Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis, Ambrose edited several editions of the New Testament and collated the Codex Sinaiticus with the Textus Receptus. For his services to textual criticism and the understanding of Biblical manuscripts, he was voted a Civil list pension in 1872. He was an advocate of the Byzantine text (majority text) over more modern manuscripts as a source for Bible translations. He distinguished, as the first, the Textus Receptus from the Byzantine text. Scrivener compared Textus Receptus in editions of Stephanus (1550), Theodore Beza (1565), and Elzevier (1633) and enumerated all differences. Moreover he enumerated differences between Textus Receptus and editions of Lachmann, Tregelles, and Tischendorf. Scrivener doubted in the authenticity of spurious texts like Matthew 16:2b–3, Christ's agony at Gethsemane, John 5:3.4, Pericope Adulterae.
In 1874, he became prebendary of Exeter and vicar of Hendon, where he remained for the rest of his life.
The Reverend Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener, LL.D. (September 29, 1813, Bermondsey, Surrey – October 30, 1891, Hendon, Middlesex) was an important text critic of the New Testament and a member of the English New Testament Revision Committee which produced the Revised Version of the Bible. He was prebendary of Exeter, and vicar of Hendon.
Graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1835 after studying at Southwark,[1] he became a teacher of classics at a number of schools in southern England, and from 1846 to 1856 was headmaster of a school in Falmouth, Cornwall. He was also for 15 years rector of Gerrans, Cornwall.
Initially making a name for himself editing the Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis, Ambrose edited several editions of the New Testament and collated the Codex Sinaiticus with the Textus Receptus. For his services to textual criticism and the understanding of Biblical manuscripts, he was voted a Civil list pension in 1872. He was an advocate of the Byzantine text (majority text) over more modern manuscripts as a source for Bible translations. He distinguished, as the first, the Textus Receptus from the Byzantine text. Scrivener compared Textus Receptus in editions of Stephanus (1550), Theodore Beza (1565), and Elzevier (1633) and enumerated all differences. Moreover he enumerated differences between Textus Receptus and editions of Lachmann, Tregelles, and Tischendorf. Scrivener doubted in the authenticity of spurious texts like Matthew 16:2b–3, Christ's agony at Gethsemane, John 5:3.4, Pericope Adulterae.
In 1874, he became prebendary of Exeter and vicar of Hendon, where he remained for the rest of his life.
