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Scrivener’s Fourth Mistake — A Complete List of Differences Between Scrivener and the KJV’s Vorlage
Awhile back, I found that I couldn’t find any comprehensive list of places where Scrivener’s translation was not an accurate representation of the Greek underlying the KJV. So I worked with some existing sources and found a grand total of three places, which I posted here. I explained that the KJV uses a variant different [...]
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why i am a byzantine priorist
After reviewing all three sides of the argument for a good many hours, I’ve become quite certain that the Byzantine-priority approach, as outlined in Maurice Robinson’s The Case for Byzantine Priority, is the best way to approach questions about the original text of the Greek New Testament. No one, as far as I know of, [...]
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A Refutation of “Proofs of Peshitta Primacy”
Earlier today, I stumbled across this essay, which claims to prove that the Peshitta Aramaic New Testament is the true original Greek New Testament. Apalled at the way the author twisted facts to make them fit his viewpoint, I wrote a step-by-step refutation of all his proofs. You can read it here. It falls under [...]
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Glenn David Bauscher’s Peshitta Primacy — Distorting Truth for Profit