codex sinaiticus

Scholars

Westcott and Hort and the New Critical Text

The 1881 critical Greek text of Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort shattered the dominance of the Textus Receptus and laid the methodological foundation for modern textual criticism.

Scripture

The Septuagint and the Letter of Aristeas

The oldest translation of any part of the Hebrew Bible is the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Torah and the rest of the Jewish scriptures produced in the Hellenistic period. The…