In the thread " Important Question" in General Baptist discussions I learned that the NIV ommited some verses in their translation. I am quite distraught about this. Who made these decisions and why?
Further, after learning about this, I am definitely in the market for a new study Bible. Will I find similar editing in the NASB or the ESV?
Thank you in advance for any thoughts.
May God bless you
- Clint
Missing verses
Discussion in '2000-02 Archive' started by Clint Kritzer, Feb 23, 2002.
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Clint Kritzer Active MemberSite Supporter
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Clint, the NIV omits the verses in question due to its being based on a different textform than the KJV. As the other versions you mention is based on the same textform, they will also omit the verses in question. The versions based on the same textform as the KJV will include the verses. Those verses would be the NKJV, 21st Century KJV, 3rd Millenium Bible, etc.
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Clint Kritzer Active MemberSite Supporter
Thank you, Dr. Cassidy. Being a dumb ol' hillbilly, I now wonder what a "textform" is. ;)
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A textform is the form the underlying Greek text takes. There are primarily two major textforms, the Byzantine and the Alexandrian. There is a third which has charateristics of both, and probably represents a partially corrected representitive of the Alexandrian textform. It is usually called "Western" and is the basis of the Latin Vulgate.
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Clint Kritzer Active MemberSite Supporter
Thanks to both of you gentlemen for your attention. As I have matured in my studies of the scriptures, I often find a careful disection of a passage to be very necessary for full understanding. I had always been rather defensive about my NIV Study Bible because I felt that a very scholarly attention had been given the work despite the criticisms that fell about this version.
I know from the other thread I had cited in the first post that Dr. Cassidy seems comfortable with the NIV. I had noticed missing numbers in the text before but had thought that it was due to sentence structure or even typos. I would be very interested in your notes if you find time, Mr. Vols.
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Of course the real question is whether a particular textform has dropped out words, or another textform has added words. As the debate goes, usually the Alexandrian textform is accused of dropping verses or parts of verses. The Byzantine textform conversely should be accused of adding verses. There are ample examples though where the Byzantine textform is split on whether or not words should be included, just as the Alexandrian textform is split. Hence the need for textual criticism to deduce logically whether ommission or inclusion better explains why the other would have happened. Textual critics broadly conclude that copied manuscripts over the years tend to grow rather than shrink.
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I just spent 45 minutes typing a post giving reference after reference of homoeoteleuton in the Alexandrian textform clearly identifying the cause of their being accidentally dropped from that textform, and when I submitted it, it was gone! The entire thing was missing! Gone! 45 minutes of typing, much of which was in Greek fonts! Gone! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! So much for the "new improved software!" :mad:
[ February 24, 2002, 08:39 PM: Message edited by: Thomas Cassidy ] -
Clint Kritzer Active MemberSite Supporter
I feel your pain! OH, I how I feel your pain!
Whenever I am going to make a long posting, I use a word document on the hard drive of my computer. I type with two fingers, so it doesn't take much for me to qualify it as a "long" posting. Sorry Dr. Cassidy. :(
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For the same reason I use a simple text editor before I post. I have been certified a non-typist by several leading organizations. I really empathize!!! :( :( -
I suffer from a neurological disorder called "BET" or Benign Essential Tremor which causes my hands to shake (along with other body parts) which makes typing very difficult. This is the first time I have encountered such a problem on this forum. On the FFF I usually copy the post before I do anything because the "delete" function is so close to the "view all" button that I have sometimes hit the wrong one when my hands zig when the screen zags.
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Okay, let's try this again. In response to Chick's post above, allow me to note that only those scholars who ascribe to the "modern scientific textual criticism" based on the "5 Pillars" of Westcott and Hort believe the Alexandrian textform is the correct textform and the Byzantine textform has "added" to the autographa.
In fact, history teaches us that textual corruption is most often caused by homoeoteleuton (like ending). There are several examples of this which I could type in for you, but I will let you do your own homework. I will limit myself to just an example: Luke 2:15. The Byzantine textform reads êáé åãåíåôï ùó áðçëèïí áð áèôùí åéó ôïí ïèñáíïí ïé áããåëïé êáé ïé áíèñùðïé ïé ðïéìåíåó åéðïí . . . whereas the "modern scientific critical edition" reads êáé åãåíåôï ùó áðçëèïí áð áèôùí åéó ôïí ïèñáíïí ïé áããåëïé ïé ðïéìåíåó . . .
It is abundantly clear that the critical edition has corrupted the original via homoeoteleuton. The syllable ÏÉ occurs 6 times in about as many words, êáé åãåíåôï ùó áðçëèïí . . . ïé áããåëïé êáé ïé áíèñùðïé ïé ðïéìåíåó åéôïí. The critical editions leave out êáé ïé áíèñùðïé on the bases of the homoeoteleuton seen in BLÎ.
So, as we can see from the actual evidence, it is much more likely that words will be omitted from the text than added to the text.
I suggest every serious student of the textual issue read John Burgon's "The Causes of Corruption."
I too was educated in the Critical text position, using as my textbooks those written by Kenyon, Metzgar, etc. But after sampling from all the information available, it because obvious that my education had either been done in bias, or ignorance of the true textual situation.
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Never had a problem before. I don't think it's on my end this time. Maybe I should disable the "Garble all Circular Reasoning" function. That would help.
[ February 25, 2002, 01:25 PM: Message edited by: TomVols ] -
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OK, here is my reply to Thomas,
Thomas said,
Having said all this, homoeoteleuton can hardly be called upon to explain textus receptus anomalies like 1 John 5:7-8. It cannot explain the ending of Mark, the woman caught in adultery of John 7:53-8:11, etc. It cannot also explain the many times where later Byzantine mss., have a few additional words like "Jesus Christ" instead of just "Jesus".
Finally, if the Alexandrians are erroneous where they are shorter, then you must solve the conundrum of how the errors came so quickly from LONGER (presumed correct) exemplars. You have to have longer correct exemplars in the first two centuries A.D. that then quickly produce much shorter copies in both Greek manuscripts, all early versions, and in the early church fathers. This is real difficulty for you. B and P75 agree so closely, that they almost certainly shared an exemplar only a few generations back. The many differences between Aleph and B is testimony to the fact that their shared exemplar must have been even further back toward the originals. There is simply not enough room to have several generations of longer correct mss producing shorter incorrect mss--and then to have the same process take place amongst the early version and fathers.
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Incidently, my TR/MT college professor has since also recovered and now promotes the NIV :D
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Try reading Dan Wallace (JETS June, 1994, and other articles) Wallace is much more "masterful" and has soundly taken Robinson/Pierpont to task.
Chick
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