Westcott and Horta Greek New Testament

Title page of the book "The Greek New Testament of Westcott and Hort" of the first New York edition of 1881

The New Testament in West Greek ( New The Testament in the Original Greek - New Testament in the Greek original ) - a version of the text of the New Testament in the original Koine dialect of the ancient Greek language , published in 1881 by two professors of Cambridge —1901) and Fenton John Anthony Hurt (1828–1892). The book was printed in New York . The editors have been working together on the text for 28 years. In scientific publications used for the text Westcott and Hort abbreviation or abbreviation - " WH ".

The publication of the book is the fruit of the textual research of two scientists. The sources for the publication of the book were the most ancient preserved manuscripts on Koine IV – V century : the Vatican Codex , the Sinai Codex , the Beza Codex , the Alexandria Codex , the Efremov Codex . In addition to the texts on ancient Greek scholars used for their work the surviving and available at their disposal texts, manuscripts in Old Latin and Old Syriac . The main of the five ancient Greek texts were the Sinai and Vatican codes. If any place in the text of the Vatican and Sinai codes differed from the rest, then the text of the Vatican and Sinai codes was chosen. If the discrepancies were between the Vatican and Sinai codes, the text of the Vatican Code was chosen. Sometimes the text of the Code of Beza corresponded to the texts of Old Latin and Old Syriac and was shorter than the same text in the Vatican Code, in this case the scientist printed the text of the Code of Beza. The text of Westcott and Hort is one attempt to reconstruct the text of the New Testament. In addition to the text of Westcott and Horta, there were other attempts to reconstruct the original text of the New Testament, for example, “The New Testament in Greek Nestlé - Aland ” ( eng. “Novum Testamentum Graece Nestle - Aland” ) and others. New Testament Westcott and Horta withstood several editions.