Byzantine text-type

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The Byzantine text-type is a major textual tradition of the Greek New Testament characterized by a relatively uniform and later standardized form of the text that became dominant in the medieval Byzantine Empire.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Greek New Testament textual tradition
New Testament text-type
alsoKnownAs Antiochian text-type
Majority text
Syrian text-type
associatedWithScholar John Chrysostom (patristic citations)
Lucian of Antioch (traditionally, though debated)
basisOf Patriarchal Text of the Greek Orthodox Church
Robinson–Pierpont Byzantine Greek New Testament editions
characterizedBy conflation of earlier readings
expansion of liturgical and explanatory material
fuller and smoother readings
harmonizing tendencies between parallel passages
later standardized form of the Greek New Testament text
relative textual uniformity
contrastedWith Alexandrian text-type
Caesarean text-type
Western text-type
discussedIn Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece apparatus
United Bible Societies Greek New Testament apparatus
dominantIn Greek-speaking Eastern Christianity
medieval Byzantine Empire
evaluatedBy modern textual critics as generally secondary to Alexandrian readings
fieldOfStudy New Testament textual criticism
geographicalCenter Antioch
Byzantium
hasFeature tendency to add explicit subjects and objects
tendency to clarify ambiguous readings
tendency to expand Christological titles
tendency to harmonize Gospel parallels
hasSubset Byzantine subgroups identified by von Soden and others
Kappa (K) family of manuscripts
linked to: Byzantine text-type
influenced King James Version New Testament
linked to: King James Version

Textus Receptus
early printed editions of the Greek New Testament
language Koine Greek
notableManuscript Codex Alexandrinus (in the Gospels)
linked to: Codex Alexandrinus

Codex Basilensis
Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (partly)
Codex Washingtonianus (in parts)
preservedIn Byzantine manuscript tradition
linked to: Byzantine text-type

later uncials and minuscules
supportedBy many lectionaries
most medieval minuscules
the majority of later Greek New Testament manuscripts
timePeriod dominant by the Middle Ages
from about the 4th century CE onward
usedIn Byzantine liturgy
Greek Orthodox Church
viewedAs standard medieval Greek New Testament text

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New Testament manuscripts haveMajorTextTypes Byzantine text-type
Textus Receptus textType Byzantine text-type
Byzantine text-type preservedIn Byzantine manuscript tradition
linked to: Byzantine text-type
Byzantine text-type hasSubset Kappa (K) family of manuscripts
linked to: Byzantine text-type
Codex Zographensis textType Byzantine text-type
Caesarean text-type distinguishedFrom Byzantine text-type
Majority text hasAlternativeName Byzantine Majority Text
linked to: Byzantine text-type
Majority text associatedWith Byzantine text-type
Robinson–Pierpont Byzantine Greek New Testament editions basedOn Byzantine textform
linked to: Byzantine text-type
Robinson–Pierpont Byzantine Greek New Testament editions traditionEmphasized Byzantine manuscript tradition
linked to: Byzantine text-type
Codex Basilensis textType Byzantine text-type
New Testament textual criticism studies Byzantine text-type
Byzantine Studies studiesTopic Byzantine manuscript tradition
linked to: Byzantine text-type