2.24 Battle for the New Testament IV: Modern Times

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

Judaism, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.4 • 711 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The discovery of the ancient Codices Vaticanus and Sinaiticus in the 19th century revealed that the New Testament circulated in three different textual traditions: the Byzantine, the Alexandrian, and the Western. It became clear that the Textus Receptus was based entirely on Byzantine manuscripts, all written in the high Middle Ages. Modern Protestant and Catholic bibles rely on the much older Alexandrian manuscripts, represented by Vaticanus and Sinaiticus, and on modern papyrus discoveries.

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0:00.0	Gide. I'm Gary Stevens. And welcome to the second series of the History in the Bible podcast.
0:13.1	More of the history in more of the books in all the Bibles.
0:20.2	Episode 2.24.
0:21.6	Battle for the New Testament Part 4, Modern Times.
0:27.6	In the last episode of the history in the Bible,
0:30.6	I recounted the story of the Reformation battle
0:33.6	for a critical, reliable edition of the Greek New Testament.
0:39.3	By the time the King James Bible was written, the New Testament circulated in two versions.
0:46.9	Catholics used the Vulgate, a Latin translation made by St. Jerome towards the end of the Roman
0:53.4	Empire.
0:55.0	In a frenetic display of scholarship, Protestants had gone back to old Byzantine manuscripts
1:01.0	to produce what we now call the Greek textus receptus.
1:06.0	Even that existed in several flavors.
1:09.0	The textus receptus was used to produce new vernacular translations
1:13.7	of the New Testament, amongst them the King James Bible. One of the pioneers of the Textus
1:20.7	Receptus was Theodore de Beza, the Protestant reformer who succeeded John Calvin in Switzerland.
1:28.3	In France, he discovered two interesting codices, books, of some of the New Testament.
1:35.3	One he found in the town of Clermont in Piccadie.
1:39.3	The other he simply stole from the monastic library at Lyon. Both were polyglots, Greek and Latin, on facing pages.
1:50.0	One codex contained incomplete versions of the Gospels and Acts.
1:55.0	The other contained Paul's letters and some books that never made it into our New Testament.
2:02.6	The Epistle to Barnabas, the shepherd of Hermes, the Acts of Paul and the Revelation of Peter.
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