Featured The KJV has not remained unchanged since 1769

As far as I know there is not an edition of the KJV based on Scrivener's 1894 Greek New Testament. In fact, the opposite is true.

Here is an excellent recounting of the 1894 text, its purpose, and its value.

https://biblia.com/books/tr1894mr/Mt

When the page loads it will start at the beginning of the Greek text itself. Scroll back up to the Introduction, which is what I referenced above.

 

There is one edition: The NKJV.

 

I am not sure what you mean. The 1894 IS a TR. But it is quite different from the 1516 edition of Erasmus if that is what you are referring to when you say "the original texts in the TR."

If you are talking about the Byzantine textform, then, no, no TR could be said to be close. All TRs show the inherent dangers of uncorrected transcription.

 

Scrivener's compilation was an attempt to identify the Greek text underlying the KJV, which came from different sources. Thus it represents a variation of the TR, but only that which the KJV translators decided to use. Scrivener in his 1881 edition noted that the translators had, in some places, apparently used the Vulgate or the Rheims as the basis for renderings..

 

But it is a critical edition which includes a textual apparatus indicating the source for the variants. That was its original purpose. To indicate the differences between the ERV of 1881 and the KJV of 1611/1769 and the source of those differences.

Most people forget, or didn't know, that Scrivener was on the translation committee for the ERV of 1881.

 

There is no textual basis for KJVO, of any sort. Scriveners TR did not exist prior to 1881. The KJV is an eclectic revision of the Bishops' Bible. There is no singular source text underlying the NT. (The OT is more cohesive and tends to, for the most part, reflect Bomberg's Hebrew text.)

As best as we can discern Erasmus used 7 manuscripts to produce his first edition of 1516.

Minuscule 1eap, which contained all of the NT except Revelation.
Minuscule1rK, which contained the Book of Revelation.
Minuscule 2e, which contained the Gospels.
Minuscule 2ap, which contained the Acts and Epistles.
Minuscule 4ap, which contained the Pauline epistles.
Minuscule 7p, which also contained the Pauline epistles.
Minuscule 817, which contained the Gospel.

But none of Erasmus's 5 editions of his TR follows any of those manuscripts entirely.

For the second edition of 1519 he also used Minuscule 3 (entire NT except Revelation) but his 1519 edition differed from the 1516 edition in about 400 places.

For the third edition of 1522 he added Codex Montfortianus to his group of manuscripts (famous for the fact it contained the Johnnine Comma). Montfortianus contains a scribal error in Revelation 2:13. The third edition differs from the second edition in 118 places.

His fourth edition differed from the third edition in about 20 places.

And his fifth edition differed from the fourth edition in only 4 places.

But it was his third edition that was the most popular and the most used of his 5 editions and was the basis of later editions by Robert Estienne (Stephanus), Theodore Beza, and the Elzevirs (not brothers, as is commonly thought, but uncle and nephew).

 

Today, Scriveners TR is published, primarily, by the Trinitarian Bible Society, without the textual apparatus. I am not aware of anyone printing or making available online the Scrivener text including the apparatus.

If anyone knows where either of those can be found please let me know.

 

I just bought the Kindle edition to take a look at. It does not contain the apparatus.