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Health & Science Education jamessnappjr textualcriticism

The Revised Version of 1881 and some of the scholars (especially F.J.A. Hort) who contributed to its production and the production of its primary New Testament base-text.
Use the subtitles, which provide an outline for the lecture.

3:30 - Sinaiticus joins Vaticanus (1862)
6:30 - Minimal improvements expected (1864)
6:45 - Charles Ellicott
7:15 - Rules for Revision
8:45 - George Vance Smith (Unitarian)
9:40 - Hort's Anti-Byzantine Bias
10:20 - In practical terms the "Revised" Greek text was a replacement of the essentially Byzantine Textus Receptus with the Alexandrian Text
11:00 - Hort's anti-democratic politics, racism, and sympathy with Darwinism
13:00 - Hort's awareness of the appearance of heresy
14:00 - Unitarian support for Hort's compilation (1875)
14:45 - Hort and the occult: his 1864 seance-attendance
16:20 - The genetic fallacy
17:00 - Westcott
17:35 - Joseph Lightfoot
18:00 Scrivener - often outvoted
18:50 - John Burgon's analytical denunciations regarding the Revised Text
20:00 - Bait and switch
21!:15 - Westcott & Hort's foundational premise
22:00 - Burgon's justification for hitting hard