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He argues that the bulk of the erroneous readings in New Testament manuscripts reviewed were made by scribal slips during the copying process, and not in order to further anyone's personal agenda, adding strength to the reliability of the Greek New Testament text available today, despite the need to refine current editions to be as close as possible to the original text.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50988086362385,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50988087902481,"sku":"NIN9781498217866","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52585672048913,"sku":"NLS9781498217866","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1498217869.jpg?v=1751148475"},{"product_id":"scribes-motives-and-manuscripts-book-alan-mugridge-9781498217880","title":"Scribes, Motives, and Manuscripts","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51030451650833,"sku":"NIN9781498217880","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52588766003473,"sku":"NLS9781498217880","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1498217885.jpg?v=1750827874"},{"product_id":"scribes-theology-and-apologetics-book-alan-mugridge-9781498291200","title":"Scribes, Theology, and Apologetics","description":"This book is a companion volume to Scribes, Motives, and Manuscripts. In this volume Alan Mugridge provides an assessment of two major studies which claim that scribes of New Testament manuscripts changed the text in their copies from what they found in those they were using as models, either to further their own theological convictions and hinder opposing views from finding support in those manuscripts, or to respond to criticism of Christ and Christians in wider society. In both cases, the thesis examined is that copyists did not just reproduce the manuscripts given to them but changed their copies to say what they wanted them to say. These theories are tested by an examination of the manuscripts with their textual variants, arguing that the variant readings can usually be explained as the result of scribal carelessness or simple piety. The idea that copyists deliberately changed the text in their manuscripts is found to have little basis. 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In this volume, however, Alan Mugridge examines all of the extant Greek papyri bearing Christian literature up to the end of the 4th century, as well as several comparative groups of papyri, and concludes that, on the whole, Christian texts, like most literary texts in the Roman world, were copied by trained scribes. Professional Christian scribes probably became more common after the time of Constantine, but this study suggests that in the early centuries the copyists of Christian texts in Greek were normally trained scribes, Christian or not, who reproduced those texts as part of their trade and, while they made mistakes, copied them as accurately as any other texts they were called upon to copy.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52430629863697,"sku":"NLS9783161546884","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783161546884.jpg?v=1759170234"},{"product_id":"scribes-theology-and-apologetics-book-alan-mugridge-9781498291224","title":"Scribes, Theology, and Apologetics","description":"This book is a companion volume to Scribes, Motives, and Manuscripts. 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