REVISITING MY REFUTATION OF WACHTEL’S THEORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BYZANTINE TEXT: Is the Data Not Adequate?

© 2023, by John Tors. All Rights Reserved.   Introduction Until the printing press was invented in the Western world in the mid-15th century, all writings (including the New Testament books) could be reproduced only by copying by hand (a handwritten copy is known as a manuscript).  Since no copyist (“scribe”) is perfect, differences at points in the text (“variants”) are found among the extant manuscripts[1].  The attempt to recover the[…]