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Total Pages : 384 pages
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Download or read book Haverford College Studies (Classic Reprint) written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Haverford College Studies In my recent dissertation on the great Cambridge bilingual, the Codex Bezae, I have sought to recover the Latin of that famous text from the neglect or contempt into which it has fallen, and to shew to the critical students of the New Testament that this text is of all texts the most important for the recovery of the rude and primitive rendering of the Gospels and the Acts which was current in the early part of the second century. The method which I have adopted is fertile in valuable results beyond what my most sanguine ideas could have hoped. As soon as it is seen that the Latin is rarely, if ever, an accommodation to its conjugate Greek, while on the other hand the Greek is almost always accommodated to the Latin, a new light breaks upon the perplexing question of the genesis of the Western readings in the New Testament: and we are able to shew that the leading versions of the text go back into a common origin, which we designate as the Great Western Bilingual; a recension which was freely coloured both in Latin and in Greek by the opinions prevailing in the second century, and whose primitive structure was barbarous in speech, being sometimes pleonastic in its renderings and sometimes hideously literal, bristling with vulgarisms of a decidedly African type, and also with some forms of speech for which not even the barbarous African dialect can fairly be held accountable. It is a matter of the highest importance to collect from the primitive Latin and associated texts the surviving forms of this venerable version. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.