Arthur White Adams

[Steven Avery]

 

[Steven Avery]

Manuscripts of the Greek Bible:
An Introduction to Greek Paleography
BRUCE M. METZGER, 1981, p.68

Luke 16:9-21. Gregory-Aland P75. Early iii cent.

This goes a long way, as A. W. Adams remarks, 'to showing that the B-type of text was already in existence in Egypt, and in a relatively pure form, before the end of the second century. If so, the view, much canvassed in recent years, that the Alexandrian text-type was a third or fourth century recension—i.e. a deliberately revised or "made" text formed out of the "popular" texts of the second century—will need considerable revision.' [1]

[1] F. G. Kenyon, The Text of the Greek Bible, 3rd ed., revised and augmented by A. W. Adams (London, 1975), P. 77.

In addition to the quote from Arthur White Adams (1912-1997) no longer having any palaeographic support, let us restore the phrase omitted by Metzger, that shows the Alexandrian circularity, and then continue the quote.

"This goes a long way to showing that the B-type of text was already in existence in Egypt, and in a relatively pure form, before the end of the second century. If so, the view, much canvassed in recent years, that the Alexandrian text-type (of which B and א were the chief representatives) was a third or fourth century recension— i.e. a deliberately revised or "made" text formed out of the "popular" texts of the second century—will need considerable revision. Indeed, Hort’s theory that the ‘neutral’ text of B א—and especially B—was an ancient text which had survived in almost pure form, apart from scribal errors, and without serious editorial revision, now returns into the foreground of serious discussion."

Then Adams goes into the P75 corruption at Luke 16:19 trying to name the rich man, and other corruptions like John 4:11 and John 8:57 and John 10:7. It is all a total textual disaster, even trying to revert back to the neutral text absurdity of Hort.