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The Septuagint (LXX/Greek Old Testament) and The Majority Text (Greek New Testament): The New Testament in the Original Greek, Byzantine Textform;

Edited by Maurice A. Robinson and William G. Pierpont.
(Transliteration)

A Word of Truth Module
http://ourchurch.com.../o/observations
Module created by Jeff Huddleston

What's New in Version 1.0 (See full changelog)

Uploaded Mac/e-sword 11 version.

Marvin

Nov 29 2011 12:18 PM

I like the combination of the Septuagint OT and English Majority NT transliterations but this module causes my Compare tab to cut off entirely or it diminishes the size of font down to 2 or 3 points, depending on the time that I downloaded it. I have downloaded twice at about 6 months apart. The second time was just to see if the first problem had been overcome. It had somewhat but the font problem was introduced. As soon as these problems have been fixed, I plan to download the module again. It is well worth it. I will just keep it away from my Compare tab.

Jeff D. Huddleston

Dec 27 2013 07:20 AM

Marvin: Sorry it has taken so long to answer your post. I never even noticed this problem before and I use the module regularly, but only in studying the NT. The problem is due to the way I had to format the text of the OT (which is when this happens). At the end of each verse I wasn't able able to "wrap up" the superscript formatting of the Strong's numbers or morphological tags with a } ...the NT text I used gave me a space at the end of each verse and I was able to take advantage of that when I did global "Find"/"Replace"; the OT didn't have the space. The only way I could resolve the superscript formatting for each verse of the OT was to put the } at the beginning of the next verse (that's why the OT references are small). The only way to fix this problem (as far as I know) is to go through the OT and manually put the } at the end of the verse and globally remove the } from the beginning of the verse. My LXX-WH (Westcott-Hort) module is built the same way. I may still have the original plain text files for these modules if anyone would be interested in trying to fix this. If I get a chance I will explore these modules and see if I can come up with a way to correct this myself, but as of late my time is very limited. Thanks.

Richard Cruz

Aug 23 2014 04:38 PM

Does it work, I still have a issue with it, when I go tot he OT books they all have symbols, numbers in it...

dysert

Nov 26 2014 05:00 AM

Marvin: Sorry it has taken so long to answer your post. I never even noticed this problem before and I use the module regularly, but only in studying the NT. The problem is due to the way I had to format the text of the OT (which is when this happens). At the end of each verse I wasn't able able to "wrap up" the superscript formatting of the Strong's numbers or morphological tags with a } ...the NT text I used gave me a space at the end of each verse and I was able to take advantage of that when I did global "Find"/"Replace"; the OT didn't have the space. The only way I could resolve the superscript formatting for each verse of the OT was to put the } at the beginning of the next verse (that's why the OT references are small). The only way to fix this problem (as far as I know) is to go through the OT and manually put the } at the end of the verse and globally remove the } from the beginning of the verse. My LXX-WH (Westcott-Hort) module is built the same way. I may still have the original plain text files for these modules if anyone would be interested in trying to fix this. If I get a chance I will explore these modules and see if I can come up with a way to correct this myself, but as of late my time is very limited. Thanks.

Jeff, if the problem still exists and you think the answer is just to move the "}" from the beginning of each verse to the end of each verse I'm willing to give it a shot. Let me know how I can get the original plain text files from you and I'll try to fix them. Thanks.

okmike

Aug 21 2015 10:28 PM

Oh well, using Westcott and Hort, I won't bother with this.

Silverhair

May 17 2023 08:05 PM

The problem with the compare tab has been corrected as of last update.

Olaf Bacon

Nov 08 2024 11:35 PM

The Septuagint (LXX/Greek Old Testament) and The Majority Text (Greek New Testament): The New Testament in the Original Greek, Byzantine Textform; Edited by Maurice A. Robinson and William G. Pierpont.
Tab Name LXX-BYZ
Content of the LXX-BYZ Information option for e-Sword.

ADV ADVerb or adverb and particle combined
CONJ CONJunction or conjunctive particle
COND CONDitional particle or conjunction
PRT PaRTicle, disjunctive particle
PREP PREPosition
INJ INterJection
ARAM ARAMaic transliterated word (indeclinable)
HEB HEBrew transliterated word (indeclinable)
N-PRI Indeclinable PRoper Noun
A-NUI Indeclinable NUmeral (Adjective)
N-LI Indeclinable Letter (Noun)
N-OI Indeclinable Noun of Other type

DECLINED FORMS:
All follow the order: prefix-case-number-gender-(suffix)
Prefixes:
N- Noun
A- Adjective
R- Relative pronoun
C- reCiprocal pronoun
D- Demonstrative pronoun
T- definite article
K- correlative pronoun
I- Interrogative pronoun
X- indefinite pronoun
Q- correlative or interrogative pronoun
F- reFlexive pronoun (person 1,2,3 added)
S- poSsessive pronoun (person 1,2,3 added)
P- Personal pronoun (person 1,2,3 added) (Note: 1st and 2nd personal pronouns have no gender)

Cases (5-case system only):
-N Nominative
-V Vocative
-G Genitive
-D Dative
-A Accusative

Number:
S Singular
P Plural

Gender:
M Masculine
F Feminine
N Neuter

Suffixes:
-S Superlative (used only with adjectives and some adverbs)
-C Comparative (used only with adjectives and some adverbs)
-ABB ABBreviated form (used only with various numerals)
-I Interrogative
-N Negative (used only with particles as PRT-N)
-C Contracted form, or two words merged by crasis
-ATT ATTic Greek form
-P Particle attached (with relative pronoun)

PARSING CODES FOR VERB-RELATED FORMS
All Greek verbs are listed in one of three various forms:
1) V-tense-voice-mood
2) V-tense-voice-mood-person-number
3) V-tense-voice-mood-case-number-gender
The abbreviations which pertain to each of these categories are the following:
Tense:
P Present
I Imperfect
F Future
2F Second Future
A Aorist
2A Second Aorist
R peRfect
2R Second peRfect
L pLuperfect
2L Second pLuperfect
X no tense stated (adverbial imperative)

Voice:
A Active
M Middle
P Passive
E Either middle or passive
D middle Deponent
O passive depOnent
N middle or passive depoNent
Q impersonal active
X no voice stated

Mood:
I Indicative
S Subjunctive
O Optative
M iMperative
N iNfinitive
P Participle
R impeRative-sense participle

Extra:
-M Middle significance
-C Contracted form
-T Transitive
-A Aeolic
-ATT Attic
-AP Apocopated form
-IRR Irregular or Impure form

Person:
1 First person
2 Second person
3 Third person

Number:
S Singular
P Plural

Gender:
M Masculine
F Feminine
N Neuter

Case:
N Nominative (5-case system only!)
G Genitive
D Dative
A Accusative
V Vocative

Olaf Bacon

Nov 09 2024 12:09 AM

Source: extract from the content of the LXX-BYZ Information option for e-Sword.

THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT: BYZANTINE TEXTFORM - The Greek Text Edited by Maurice A. Robinson and William G. Pierpont

Copyright 2005 by Robinson and Pierpont. Anyone is permitted to copy and distribute this text or any portion of this text. It may be incorporated in a larger work, and/or quoted from, stored in a database retrieval system, photocopied, reprinted, or otherwise duplicated by anyone without prior notification, permission, compensation to the holder, or any other restrictions. All rights to this text are released to everyone and no one can reduce these rights at any time. Copyright is not claimed nor asserted for the new and revised form of the Greek NT text of this edition, nor for the original form of such as initially released into the public domain by the editors, first as printed textual notes in 1979 and in continuous-text electronic form in 1986.

THE NATURE OF THE BYZANTINE TEXTFORM

The Byzantine Textform presented herein was compiled, refined, and arranged by William G. Pierpont and Maurice A. Robinson during the period 1976-2004. The primary textual apparatuses utilized in the preparation of this edition were those of Hermann Freiherr Von Soden, "Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer Ã¤ltesten erreichbaren Textgestalt" (GÃ¶ttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1911) and Herman C. Hoskier, "Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse" (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1929). The data from these versions never was taken in isolation, but was carefully compared all other published critical apparatuses, printed collations of individual manuscripts, manuscript evidence assembled by Reuben Swanson, and the full collation data regarding selected variant readings as published in the "Text und Textwert" series by the Institut fÃ¼r Neutestamentliche Textforschung in MÃ¼nster, Germany.

The Von Soden and Hoskier apparatuses likewise were utilized by Zane Hodges and Arthur Farstad for their edition of "The Greek New Testament according to the Majority Text" (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982; 2nd ed., 1985). For most of the New Testament, the Robinson- Pierpont text is identical with that of Hodges and Farstad. However, since the Hodges-Farstad text was constructed on the basis of somewhat different principles involving stemmatics and use of non-Byzantine manuscripts in order to establish numerical "majority," their published text does not always agree with the Robinson-Pierpont edition.

Most textual differences between Robinson-Pierpont and Hodges-Farstad are due either to the latter's different interpretation of identical data, the use or rejection of extraneous data, or because some items in the difficult-to-read Von Soden apparatus were neglected or misinterpreted. Most of these differences are noticeable from Matthew through Jude in closely divided Byzantine readings (which appear as "Mpt" in the Hodges-Farstad apparatus). A proportionately greater number of differences appears in John 7:53-8:11 (the "Pericope Adulterae"), as well as in the entire book of the Revelation.

In these latter two places, the differences between the Robinson-Pierpont and the Hodges-Farstad edition derive from the Hodges-Farstad's use of a stemmatic-genealogical approach for textual reconstruction in those portions. That approach follows the ideas (but not the conclusions) put forth by Von Soden and Hoskier respectively. The Robinson-Pierpont edition does not apply a stemmatic-genealogical approach anywhere in the New Testament, and thus differs significantly from the conclusions of Hodges-Farstad due to the differing methodologies employed.

The Robinson-Pierpont text of the Pericope Adulterae is no longer based on what had been a reasoned interpretation of Von Soden's data (Von Soden in that location provided only stemmatic data rather than the usual K-group information). During the period 1997-2000, supplemented further in 2005, Maurice A. Robinson completed a full collation of all available Greek manuscript witnesses (encompassing approximately 2200 continuous-text and lectionary manuscripts) regarding this controversial portion of text. This project was accomplished during sabbatical and summer research leave thanks to the courtesy of both his home institution and the generosity of the Institute fÃ¼r Neutestamentliche Textforschung in MÃ¼nster, Germany, regarding on-site use of their extensive microfilm holdings.

As a result of this extensive research, Von Soden's data regarding the Pericope Adulterae has been re-evaluated and revised, with the current Byzantine Textform presentation of the Pericope Adulterae now being fully based on collated manuscript evidence. Overall, that text continues to reflect von Soden's "m5" group, but with some small differences. The Hodges-Farstad preference for von Soden's "m6" group, while not adopted as the main text of the Robinson-Pierpont edition, is nevertheless taken into consideration and similarly reconstructed solely on the basis of full manuscript collation. Subvariant readings of both the m5 and m6 groups are displayed as alternate variants. Regardless of text group followed, nearly the whole of the Greek text of the Pericope Adulterae remains certain.

For the book of the Revelation, the editors have constructed a probable original form of the "Traditional Text" from the full collation data of Hoskier in his "Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse" volumes, published in 1929.

However, in the Revelation no single and united "Byzantine Textform" exists as in the rest of the New Testament. Rather, two complementary textual traditions exist, each supported by an approximately equal number of MSS. One of these traditions is called the "An" text (named for Andreas, whose commentary accompanies most MSS of this type); the other tradition is called the "Q" text (the remaining mass of MSS).

Where the "An" and "Q" texts agree, a true "Byzantine Textform" consensus exists. Where they disagree, however, a probable traditional text has been reconstructed on the basis of acceptable external and internal standards of New Testament textual criticism, following the basic criteria of John W. Burgon rather than the stemmatic- genealogical approach of Hodges-Farstad. Although a strictly "majority-consensus" draft text of Revelation was developed in 1977 by M. A. Robinson for dissertation research purposes, that preliminary draft has since been revised carefully and extensively in consultation with William G. Pierpont in order to reflect a more authoritative "traditional consensus." The current edition reflects the latest and most complete revision of the text of that book.

In the New Testament, the Byzantine Textform reflects a general agreement with early printed editions which were based upon Byzantine-era manuscripts (even though no single manuscript or printed edition is 100% identical with the Byzantine Textform). Such MSS are commonly termed "Textus Receptus" or "Received Text" documents, based upon the name finally given those early printed Greek editions in 1624. These include the editions of Erasmus 1516, Stephens 1550, Beza 1598, and (the one actually termed "Textus Receptus") Elzevir 1624. George Ricker Berry correctly noted that "in the main they are one and the same; and [any] of them may be referred to as the Textus Receptus" (George Ricker Berry, ed., "The Interlinear Literal Translation of the Greek New Testament" [New York: Hinds & Noble, 1897], p.ii).

All these early printed Greek New Testaments closely parallel the text of the English-language Authorized (or King James) Version of 1611. That version was based primarily upon Beza 1598, which differed but little from its Textus Receptus predecessors or from the general aggregate text of the Byzantine manuscripts. This "Byzantine Textform" (otherwise called the "majority" or "traditional" text) predominated throughout the most extensive period of manual copying of Greek New Testament manuscripts.

Many evangelical Greek scholars have begun to re-evaluate the authenticity-claims of the Byzantine Textform over against the subjectively based textual preferences of the past century and a half, whether stemming from documentarians such as Lachmann, Tregelles or Westcott and Hort; from modern "reasoned" eclectic theorists such as Metzger, Aland or Fee); or from "rigorous" eclectic theorists such as Kilpatrick or Elliott.

This Byzantine Textform edition does NOT concur with the Westcott-Hort Greek text nor with that of modern critical editions such as those published by the United Bible Societies or the various Nestle-Aland editions. All those editions follow a predominantly "Alexandrian" Greek text, as opposed to the Byzantine Textform found in the dominant majority of manuscripts. However, well over 85% of the text of ALL Greek New Testament editions remains identical, regardless of which text is followed. For more information on technical text-critical matters, consult the bibliographical resources listed below.

The significant translatable differences between the modern critical texts, the Authorized Version, and the Byzantine Textform are most clearly presented in the NU-text and M-text footnotes appended to editions of the "New King James Version," published by Thomas Nelson Co. The M-notes in that edition, however, reflect the Hodges-Farstad Majority Text and do NOT always coincide with the Byzantine Textform edition; nor do the M-notes indicate all translatable differences between the TR and the Byzantine Textform, even in regard to the Hodges-Farstad edition. The respective printed Greek NT editions should be consulted in order to view all cases of variation.

One should remember that NO printed Receptus Greek text agrees 100% with the aggregate Byzantine Textform manuscript tradition or with any English version. However, the printed Receptus texts DO approximate the Byzantine Textform closely enough (around 98% agreement) to claim a near-identity of reading between any Receptus edition and the dominant majority of all manuscripts.

In matters of orthography, words like "tout estin" are used uniformly throughout where the Stephens 1550 TR sometimes printed "toutestin" but also "tout estin." So too with "dia ti" as well as with "ouketi". Other words which were combined in Stephens 1550 are often separated, or vice versa, in conformity with modern orthographical practice. Also, the form "dauid" replaces the TR "dabid" throughout, being closer to early uncial orthography as well as to the Hebrew form of "David" than that of the TR (the dominant majority of MSS actually read only the abbreviation "dad", with the reader left to supply the missing letters; this reflects the usual practice of scribes when dealing with the so-called "nomina sacra" abbreviations).

Also, certain numbers are often represented in the manuscripts by Greek letters. For example, in the book of the Revelation "ib" = "dwdeka" = "twelve" occurs 24 times; "rmd" = "ekaton [kai] tessarakonta tessares" = "144" occurs 4 times; and also "cxv" = "666" appears among the manuscripts. Of these, only "cxv" is retained in the present searchable text. All other forms are written out in their normal full spelling.

SPECIALIZED CHAPTER AND VERSE NUMBERING

In the Byzantine Textform module, certain verse numbers appear with no text following. This is because the overwhelming consensus of Greek manuscripts (the Byzantine Textform) has no expanded reading in those locations. The passages Luke 17:36, Acts 8:37; 15:34; and 24:7 are therefore indicated by only a verse marker with no text following.

In two places, verses which are actually transposed in the Byzantine Textform remain in their traditional location. Thus, Romans 16:25-27 in the Byzantine Textform properly appears at the end of Rom. 14:23; this passage is retained in its traditional numerical location ONLY to facilitate the cross-comparison of the Greek text against other Greek or English versions which do not have the verses following Romans 14. The proper location of these verses within the Byzantine Textform tradition is indicated by including the correct verse references in brackets following the traditional verse numbering (e.g., 16:25 [14:24]; 16:26 [14:25]; and 16:27 [14:26]).

A similar transpositional change appears at Matthew 23:13-14. The Byzantine Textform reverses the contents of those verses from what appears in the common English text. However, these verses are presented in the traditional English order solely in order to facilitate comparison with other Greek or English versions. The correct Byzantine Textform order is similarly indicated by bracketed numbers following the traditional verse numbering, as mentioned in the preceding paragraph (e.g., 23:13 [23:14]; and 23:14 [23:13]).

In many places, portions of a verse found in Textus Receptus editions no longer appear, even though the verse numbering is not affected (e.g., Acts 9:5-6; 1 John 5:7). These reflect textual differences between the Receptus types of Greek text and the Byzantine Textform. Such textual differences reflect no accidental error or deliberate malice, but simply follow the readings of the Byzantine Textform manuscript consensus, which in places differs significantly from the common Receptus text.

DIVIDED READINGS WITHIN THE BYZANTINE TEXTFORM

Olaf Bacon

Nov 09 2024 02:17 AM

LXX-BYZ - Transliterated Septuagint OT and Majority Text NT

This is listed in Options > Resource Settings... > Bibles, as: Transliterated Septuagint OT and Majority Text NT.

The Tab Name = LXX-BYZ

Here is an example of Genesis 1:1 Both the *.bbli option, and the *.bblx option, displays the same content.

(LXX-BYZ) enG1722 PREP archeG746 N-DSF epoiesenG4160 V-AAI-3S oG3588 T-NSM theosG2316 N-NSM tonG3588 T-ASM ouranonG3772 N-ASM kaiG2532 CONJ tenG3588 T-ASF genG1093 N-ASF

Here is an example of Matthew 1:1

(LXX-BYZ) biblosG976 N-NSF geneseosG1078 N-GSF iesouG2424 N-GSM christouG5547 N-GSM uiouG5207 N-GSM dauidG1138 N-PRI uiouG5207 N-GSM abraamG11 N-PRI

Bible Support provides two download options:

[1] LXX-BYZ - Transliterated Septuagint OT and Majority Text NT.bblx 52.69MB This is suitable for e-Sword for the PC.

[2] lxx-byz_-_transliterated_septuagint_ot_and_majority_text_nt.bbli 45.49MB This is suitable for e-Sword for the PC after version 11, for e-Sword X for the Mac, for e-Sword HD for the iPad, for e-Sword LT for the iPhone, and e-Sword for Android.

TESTED: The *.bblx option and the *.bbli options both work okay in e-Sword for the PC version 14.1

If you have both the *.bbli and the *.bblx modules accessible, then the *.bblx option will overwrite the *.bbli option, because both use the same Tab Name. File modules are loaded in filename order.

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