Textus Receptus (1550/1894)

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Textus Receptus (1550/1894) (GRCTXR)

Overview

A composite Greek New Testament text combining Robert Estienne’s (Stephanus) 1550 edition with Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener’s 1894 reconstruction. The term “Textus Receptus” (Latin for “received text”) originated in a 1633 Elzevir edition, whose preface declared it “the text which is now received by all,” and the name was applied retroactively to earlier printed Greek New Testaments descending from Erasmus’s 1516 edition. [1] Stephanus’s third edition of 1550 was notable for introducing the first critical apparatus in a Greek New Testament, referencing the Complutensian Polyglot and fifteen additional Greek manuscripts; it became the standard form of the Greek text in England. [1] Scrivener’s 1894 edition reconstructed the Greek text underlying the 1611 King James Version by reverse-engineering the English translation through available sixteenth-century sources, primarily the editions of Beza and Stephanus. [1] There are approximately 283 differences between the Stephanus and Scrivener texts, most involving spelling, word order, or other minor variations. [2] Both texts are in the public domain.

Language and People

Ancient Greek (ISO 639-3: grc). [Glottolog: anci1242]

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