Text Families
The basic text families from which the literal translations have
been derived are the same for the KJV and the NKJV and are known
as Byzantine. More recent versions are based on the Alexandrine
text which was not available when the KJV was originally translated.
There have been numerous discussions by many scholars about which
original text is most accurate.
The Alexandrine text family was hidden away and untouched for
several hundred years while the Byzantine texts were copied and
recopied during those centuries. However, the end result is two
families of texts that vary little in their actual communicative
content. Certainly, there are variances in capitalization, punctuation,
spellings, etc. However, the Biblical truth is sound and consistent
in both text families. While the Byzantine text is considered
to be "fuller," most of its fullness appears due to
such things as restatements of thoughts and fuller names for Christ
(e.g., Lord Jesus Christ).
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