R. L. Dabney’s 1871 Indictment of the Critical Canons
Dabney argued that nineteenth-century critics did not merely disagree over facts; they worked with rival codes whose rules could reverse one another and lacked a common umpire.
Open record →Tag: Westcott and Hort
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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 →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 →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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