[RELIGST 2HH3] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (75 pages long)

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2HH3
• Professor: Stephen Westerholm

Document Summary

All modern translations use the same base greek text it is an eclectic text. The greek text in which all translations are based on are eclectic. Diplomatic text: a modern reproduction of one of the thousands of manuscripts, but all these manuscripts are handwritten and there are mistakes no matter how careful you are, there will be mistakes when copying. So this is what happens in greek manuscripts and that is why there are some discrepancies. Eclectic text: reproduce a text using the evidence of all manuscripts to produce the best possible text. If there is a mistake in one manuscript then they will look at another manuscript. We do not have the originals of any of the epistles, gospels, etc. Is o(cid:374)e if the oldest (cid:373)a(cid:374)us(cid:272)ripts of paul"s letters. Co(cid:374)tai(cid:374)s (cid:1005)(cid:1004) letters of paul i(cid:374)(cid:272)ludi(cid:374)g he(cid:271)re(cid:449)s (so(cid:373)e s(cid:272)holars do(cid:374)"t thi(cid:374)k paul (cid:449)rote this) It is all capital letters, no spacing between words, no punctuation.