When translating the New Testament from Greek into the various languages around the world that still need it, translators have to make a decision. Which manuscript are they going to work from? Often, the policy by Bible translation organisations such as SIL, UBS and IBT is to translate from the critical text (the latest UBS or Nestle-Aland version). Modern-day scholarship would support such a decision. The assumption is that the shorter and simpler texts are likely to be the earliest. These are mostly from Alexandria in Egypt. The longer and more complex texts are thought to be later. These are mainly from Asia Minor (modern-day Türkiye). The problem is that the regional translations used in many parts of the world such as Russia and Central Asia are often based on the Textus Receptus. This is the first Greek text to have been widely published, and was put together by Erasmus and published in 1516, along with a new translation into Latin (it was a diglot Greek-Latin New Testa...
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