Were the Revisers Deceived?
The Revisers knew that Greek changes were permitted and knew Westcott and Hort’s private text was before them. The defensible charge is not an unnoticed substitution. It is…
Open record →Category: The Revision That Became Reconstruction: Westcott, Hort, and the Rise of Magisterial Textual Criticism
6 published records in this controlled archive.
Hort’s Ascendancy and Scrivener’s Resistance
The Revision Company never formally adopted Westcott and Hort’s edition, yet a fellow Reviser testified that Hort persuaded the Company of the general soundness of his theory. Scrivener’s…
Open record →A Text Circulated Under Confidence
Westcott and Hort’s Greek text was not hidden from the Revisers; it was placed in their hands through a restricted private issue. The decisive imbalance was different: the…
Open record →The Private Greek New Testament, 1853–1870
Westcott and Hort did not enter the Revision Company as neutral observers waiting for its evidence to form their views. They brought a Greek New Testament already seventeen…
Open record →What Convocation Actually Authorized
The Revisers were not forbidden to consider Greek variants. Their own rules expressly authorized textual changes when the evidence was judged decidedly preponderating. The real controversy begins after…
Open record →A Revision Becomes a Reconstruction
The 1881 Revisers were commissioned to revise the Authorized Version, yet their own rules and preface show that they also judged and altered its underlying Greek text. That…
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