New Testament Textual Analysis 13 -Challenging Hort

Discoveries in the 1900s cumulatively pose insurmountable problems for Hort's model of the history of the text of the New Testament.

2:30 - Grenfell and Hunt at Oxyrhynchus - 069
4:00 - Scholarly reluctance to acknowledge uniquely Byzantine readings
5:00 - Egypt's papyrus-friendly low humidity
6:00 - Roman persecution under Decius and Diocletian
7:40 - Seventeen distinctly Byzantine readings in the Gospel of Mark in Papyrus 45
10:00 - In Hort's universe the readings in P45 should not exist
11:00 - Byzantine readings in the Gospel of Luke in Papyrus 45
14:00 - Harry Sturz's analysis: it is wrong to assume that the Byzantine Text is an amalgamation of the Alexandrian Text and Western Text
16:40 - Aland's rejection of the Byzantine Text as irrelevant for textual criticism
17:45 - Entrenched academic bias against the Byzantine Text
18:00 - Arthur Voobus
18:45 - Ten conflations in chief representatives the Alexandrian Text and Western Text
23:20 - What conflations don't necessarily mean
25:00 - Patristic evidence - Methodius is inconsistent - more Western than Alexandrian but not entirely
27:45 - an absence of evidence (not evidence of absence)
29:00 - Salmon's critique of Hort's pro-Alexandrian bias goes has been ignored
30:00 - What about killing a man?

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