The aim of the scholarly editor is not to produce the the easiest text for the reader, but to get as near as he can to the text of the author. — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
Seldom can two such epoch-making events have occurred in successive years as happened then. In 1453 the Turks stormed Constantinople and finally destroyed the… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
The New Testament was not produced as a single work issued by an authoritative Church for the instruction of its members. The four Gospels… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
It is indeed a striking proof of the essential soundness of the tradition that with which all these thousands of copies, tracing their ancestry… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
The history of the Bible text is a romance of literature, though it is a romance of which the consequences are of vital import;… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
The Gospels were not thought of as works of literature. People were not concerned with the literary reputation of Matthew or Mark, but with… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
The last foundation for any doubt that the Scriptures have come down to us substantially as they were written has now been removed. — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
The apostles were scattered, and even the leaders of the Church in Jerusalem had neither the power nor the means to impose uniformity.In these… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers. — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
All we can say is that, as the result of a process which went on from the fourth century to about the eighth, a… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
The aim of the scholarly editor is not to produce the the easiest text for the reader, but to get as near as he… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
Throughout, the work of Tyndale formed the foundation, and more than anyone else he established the rhythms and furnished much of the language which… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
The interval, then, between the dates of original composition and the earliest extant evidence becomes so small as to be in fact, negligible, and… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
