Western non-interpolations

The term Western non- interpolations was coined by Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort, and is used for certain short readings in the Greek text of the New Testament.

The numerous manuscripts of the New Testament are divided by the text critics in several types of text of varying character. Westcott and Hort were divided into four basic types:

The Syrian (Byzantine) text type is predominant in the younger manuscripts originated from about 300 from a combination of Western and Alexandrian text-type, possibly in a review. The Alexandrian text-type is characterized by linguistic smoothing. The Western text-type was also in Syria, but before the year 200, and is represented in the Old Latin and Syriac versions. It has unusual additions and extensions. The neutral text by Westcott and Hort precedes the Alexandrian and Western text and does not contain any misrepresentations.

Affected text passages

In a wide circle accepted sites are the nine digits in Mt 27.49; Lk 22:19 b- 20; 24.3; 24.6; 24,12; 24.36; 24,40; 24.51; 24.52. Further suitable locations are Mt 6:15; 9.34; 13.33; 21.44; 23.26; Mk 10.2; 14,39; Lk 5:39; 10.41 to 42; 12.21; 22.62; 24.9; John 4:9, Rom 6:16; 10.21; 16.20; 16:25-27; 1 Cor. 15.3; 2 Cor 10:12-13; Tim 5:19.

Description

Texts of the Western text-type are generally longer and contain at many points additives or paraphrases, and other peculiarities, but there are some things which are against the other text types have shorter readings. Westcott and Hort were in most cases assume that the readings of the Alexandrian type represented in Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus are original and therefore based their text output heavily on this type of text. According to one of the basic rules of textual criticism shorter readings ( lectio brevior ) are usually the more primitive. They went on the assumption that in some places these short western readings are original when they called the Old Latin and the Old Syriac translation matching and these sites Western non- interpolations. The term itself implies a text-critical decision that the longer readings of the Alexandrian and Byzantine text " interpolations ", ie subsequent insertions.

This theory led to the edition of the Bible The New Testament in the Original Greek 1881 " overwhelming good testified verses from the text had been relegated to the apparatus". However, the theory could not adequately substantiate the basis of the later found papyrus manuscripts that still further back than the codices Vaticanus and Sinaiticus. The concept of Westcott and Hort text of a neutral type and the theory of Western non- interpolation were officially abandoned in 1968. The supposedly neutral text Westcott and Hort's type is now regarded as an early form of the Alexandrian text. The nine points above in Mt 27.49; Lk 22:19 b -20 and Luke 24, however, are accepted as a Western non- interpolation and the longer version is still set in the newer editions of Nestle -Aland text in footnotes or in parentheses, the other sites are back in the main text.

The readings range in origin very far back to about the 2nd century, however, it emerged after the separation between Alexandrian Text and Western Text. You are either an insertion in the Alexandrian or an omission in an early Western text. Michael Wade Martin takes to the 9 verses in Matthew 27.49; Lk 22:19 b -20, and Luke 24, a pattern that can not be due to chance: all jobs have touched the Gospel of John, the intrinsic arguments both for, and against Luke. Parsons and Ehrmann speak of an " orthodox corruption", there is a Christological tendency, a antidoketische Corruption ( Ehrmann ) or a antiseparatistische Corruption ( Martin). This unique pattern of changes is the evidence of Martin, that only a single writer is responsible for these changes, so that it is not western omissions of various writers who meet by chance. The insertions in the Alexandrian text are thus a testimony to the Christological debates of the time. There were, however, made ​​no new statements with these racks or modified the doctrine in any form, only illustrates the existing statements stronger. All of these statements can be found in similar form elsewhere in content consistently.