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e-artnow Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Revision Revised" by John William Burgon. e-artnow Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every e-artnow book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. e-artnow hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

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e-artnow Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Revision Revised" by John William Burgon. e-artnow Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every e-artnow book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. e-artnow hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Autorenporträt
John William Burgon (1813–1888) was a British Anglican divine who became a staunch defender of traditional textual sources for the New Testament. His scholarship and conservative views were sharply crystallized in his best-known work, 'The Revision Revised' (1883), a critical response to the revised version of the New Testament produced by the Westcott-Hort committee in 1881. In 'The Revision Revised', Burgon ardently defends the Textus Receptus—the Greek text underlying the King James Version of the Bible—against the newly established critical text by Westcott and Hort, which he regarded as a corruption of the authentic scripture. Burgon was a prolific author who also wrote lives of Sir Walter Ralegh and Dean Hook; however, it is his stalwart advocacy for traditional Biblical texts and his contributions to textual criticism, through his meticulous and sometimes polemical scholarship, that have made a lasting impression on Biblical studies. He was also known for his elegant literary style and his acute attention to detail—a style which was employed both to revere the scriptures and to critique any attempt to modernize them. Burgon's legacy lives on through the Dean Burgon Society, named after him, which continues to support the King James Version of the Bible and the Textus Receptus.