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Chapter 1:1-16

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How textual variants were handled in the SMB translation: also see comment section for specific examples.

A recent trend by textual scholars has been to move away from “Text types” such as Alexandrian, Western or Byzantine text types. However, decisions still need to be made regarding which writings best represent the correct Greek Text. These decisions are complex, for example with the emergence of the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM), and the Tyndale House Greek New testament (THGNT), scholars have come up with different methods and different results on what the correct text is. With new discoveries and greater understanding of scribal habits scholars have greater confidence in the accuracy of the initial Greek text. Despite all of these advancements, a debate continues as to which method and/or manuscripts to use. Proponents of the “traditional text” or the “Byzantine text” believe the Greek text has been preserved through the centuries and has been used by the “church” to faithfully demonstrate the correct writing of the New Testament. Yet even within this “Byzantine “camp, small textual differences exist.

SMB does not dismiss the many advancements in textual criticism, nor does the SMB ignore the “traditional” text. The SMB instead tries to combine both sides of the textual debate to produce a text that is a true eclectic model incorporating the traditional and modern textual criticism standards to determine the Greek text. The SMB uses 4 major published Greek texts that represent the latest research available:

1. Novum Testamentum Graece, 28th revised edition, Edited by Barbara Aland and others, © 2012 Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart.
2. The Greek New Testament, Produced at Tyndale House, Cambridge. 2017
3. The New Testament in the Original Greek: Byzantine Textform 2005, edited by Maurice A. Robinson and William G. Pierpont
4. THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT According to Family 35. Copyright © 2015 Wilbur N. Pickering

family 35 is historically known as the Kr text as well.