Homoioteleuton Errors in Modern NT Translations

Every single one of these translations uses a critical Greek text
which mutilates the New Testament by deleting some 200 whole and half-verses.

They did this on the flimsy basis that these were added to the text by
editors and copyists, in part by accident but mostly by intent,
for explanatory purposes or to reinforce or invent favorite doctrines.

However, modern scientific scholarship has shown that these are almost
all simply scribal errors, and accidental omissions mainly by homoioteleuton,
that is, lines were dropped due to similar endings or beginnings.

For the real statistical knowledge about scribal errors, these articles
should be consulted, which show that the general tendency was to omit,
not add text to the New Testament.

General Articles on Errors:
 J. Wetstein (1751): Older MSS - Older not = Better!
 J. Burgon (1882): Haplography - mechanics of error
 B. Weiss (1887): Omissions - & most common errors
 F.W. Shipley (1904): Dittography - & omissions
 H. Gamble (1977): Interpolation - Identifying Marks
 L. Haines (2008): Scribal Habits - 'Shorter Reading'?
 J.Royse (2008) Shorter Reading? - & Griesbach
 W. Pickering (2009) Oldest = Best MSS? - early errors
 T. Holland (2009) "Oldest & Best MSS" - & Byzantine

Errors in Specific MSS:
 B.B. Warfield (1887): Haplography - examples from א
 S. F. Kenyon (1901): Haplography - more ex. from א/B
 H. von Soden (1911): Omissions - in Codex א/B
 H.A. Sanders (1912): Haplography - in Codex W
 E.C. Colwell (1969): Haplography - & P⁴⁵, P⁶⁶, P⁷⁵
 D.A. Carson (1979) & homoeoteleuton - Lk 14:26
 Jongkind (2005): א - tests Singular Readings Method!
 J. Hernandez (2006): Errors of א in Rev - singular OMs
 J. Royse (2008): Scribal Habits - P^{45,46,47,66,72,75}
 J. Royse (2008) homoeoteleuton - singular omissions
 J. Krans (2010) GA-3 - famous insertion: 2 Cor 8:4
 Scrivener (2010) homoeoteleuton - P-Oxy-1780 new!


For specific information on the actual verses that modern (per)versions
leave out, or place in the margin or footnotes, or bracket as if they were
unreliable or in doubt, or possible additions, look at these examples:

Later dates for MSS: Codex W = 700 CE, P52 = II-III cent

H. Houghton has reported in  "Recent Developments in NT TC (2011, Early Christianity 2.2, p. 245-268:

"...There have also been developments in the dating of certain manuscripts. The Freer Gospels (032, W), famous for their unique text in the Longer Ending of Mark, were initially assigned to the fourth or fifth century. However, following the redating of the manuscripts used for the original comparison and the subsequent discovery of similar material, including the Cologne Mani Codex, Schmid has suggested that it may have been copied at least a century later. [29]  Parker and Birdsall's consideration of the palaeography and catena of Codex Zacynthius (040, Ξ) prompt them to propose a date of around 700 for the majuscule underwriting, rather than Hatch's suggestion of the sixth century. [30]   The date of the earliest surviving fragment of the New Testament, P52, has also been the subject of a recent review by Nongbri. [31]  This cautions against the uncritical adoption of the earliest suggested date of 125 CE and demonstrates that a date in the late second or early third centuries remains palaeographically possible. As more and more comparative material becomes available online, it will not be surprising if the dating of other manuscripts is reassessed. ...

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29. Ulrich Schmid, "Reassessing the Palaeography and Codicology of the Freer Gospel Manuscript," in The Freer Biblical Manuscripts: Fresh Studies of an American Treasure Trove ed. Larry W. Hurtado (SBLTCS 6. Atlanta GA: SBL, 2006), 227–49.

30. D.C. Parker and J. Neville Birdsall, "The Date of Codex Zacynthius (Ξ): A New Proposal," JTS 55.1 (2004): 117–31 (reprinted in Parker, Manuscripts, Texts, Theology, 113–20).

31. Brent Nongbri, "The Use and Abuse of P52: Papyrological Pitfalls in the Dating of the Fourth Gospel," HTR 98.1 (2005): 23–48.

 It seems what has long been suspected by outsiders is turning out to have some substance and basis, namely that manuscripts generally have been dated too early, and more revisions are in the works, either by their over-enthusiastic discoverers, or else apologists. 

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Muslim Piracy! -- Royse ripped off

Muslims operating outside of Western borders and ignoring copyrights have continued to steal and pilfer every scientific and scholarly literature the West has produced, and promulgate it on the net and everywhere.

Royse's Stolen Book

The trend and tradition of Eastern and Far Eastern countries sacking Western treasures is not new, but is certainly escalating. 

Muslims have recently engaged in full frontal attacks against every brand of Christianity, using Western Christian research and discovery only to mock and ridicule Western religious values and claims.   The new attacks from Muslims and other extremists are unique in the history of Christendom.

Before these people have even hung out a shingle, they have stolen and uploaded scholarly works still very much in copyright, and the result is that sales of scholarly books simply stagnate, as Muslims give it away free. 

Here is a perfect example of this outrageous theft.  Remember this is not even for personal use, or to promote the sale of Western authors, but to completely sabotage their efforts by robbing them of legitimate benefit from their hard work.

Now Royse's opus 1000 page book, reasonably priced at under $100 (and in these small markets thats a miracle in itself) has been put on the internet by Muslim pirates, bent on undermining Christianity at all costs and by all methods, regardless of their dishonesty and criminal status.

The following new Muslim site, (and we snapshotted their page below) hasn't even got a greeting or legitimate front up yet, but has made available thousands of copyrighted books, bypassing international copyright agreements:

Front Page of Muslim Pirate Operation: click to enlarge

The link is (or was): http://sheekh-3arb.org/

which translates to an American host-site.

Here is the link to a downloadable and complete copy of Royse's book, found accidentally by merely googling "Novum Testamentum Graece  (Clarendon, 1870)" (found on Google link-page 6 in my browser):

1. [PDF]

   Scribal Habits in Early Greek New Testament Papyri

   File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
   Clarendon Press, 1935. Novum Testamentum Graece secundum ...... “introduction to the text of the Gospels (1870), privately circulated, and not yet published ...
   sheekh-3arb.org/library/books/up_coll1/Scrib_Habits_Greek_NT.pdf

    

    

    

    

 So this is Muslim honesty and integrity.

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