Conflation of Readings, intentional changes in the text made by the scribe, who used two or more manuscripts with two or more textual variants and created another textual form. The term is used in New Testament textual critic.

Fenton Hort

Fenton John Anthony Hort

Fenton John Anthony Hort was an Irish theologian and editor, with Brooke Westcott of a critical edition of The New Testament in the Original Greek.-Life:...

 gave eight examples from Mark

Gospel of Mark

The Gospel According to Mark , commonly shortened to the Gospel of Mark or simply Mark, is the second book of the New Testament. This canonical account of the life of Jesus of Nazareth is one of the three synoptic gospels. It was thought to be an epitome, which accounts for its place as the second...

 (6:33; 8:26; 9:38, 39) and Luke

Gospel of Luke

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 (9:10; 11:54; 12:18; 24:53) in which the Byzantine text-type

Byzantine text-type

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 had combined Alexandrian

Alexandrian text-type

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 and Western

Western text-type

The Western text-type is one of several text-types used in textual criticism to describe and group the textual character of Greek New Testament manuscripts...

readings. It was one of the three Hort's arguments that the Byzantine text is the youngest.

Other textual critics gave more examples of conflation (Matthew 27:41, John 18:40, Acts 20:28, Romans 6:12).

Luke 24:53

"blessing God" (Alexandrian)

"praising God" (Western)

"praising and blessing God" (Byzantine)

Metzger gave as an example Acts 20:28

"the church of God" (Alexandrian)

"the church of the Lord"

"the church of the Lord and God" (Byzantine)

External links

• Leland M. Haines, Translations and the Greek Text