Has the Biblical Text Been Corrupted over the Centuries? by Jonathan Morrow

Author:Jonathan Morrow [Morrow, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780802493057
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Published: 2014-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chart 7

COMMON COPYING ERRORS

1. Confusion of common letters

2. Substitution of similar sounding words

3. Omission of letter or word

4. Letters/words written twice

5. Incorrect word division

6. Scribe attempts to clean up spelling or grammar

7. Scribe attempts to harmonize passage or remove difficulties

Wallace summarizes, “Less than 1 percent of all textual variants are both meaningful and viable, and by ‘meaningful’ we don’t mean to imply earth-shattering significance but rather, almost always, minor alterations to the meaning of the text.”17 That comes out to less than 4,000 of the original 400,000 variants having any real significance at all for the meaning of a verse. And regarding the verses where questions remain, “significant textual variants that alter core doctrines of the New Testament have not been produced.”

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