For the Old Testament, yuou basically have:
The Septuagint, written in Egypt by Phillip II suring the 400 years of silence.
The Masoretic Text
For the New Testament, you hav these collections:
Codex Sinaiticus- found in a Monastary in the 1800s near Mt. Sinai
Codex Vaticanus-released from the Roman Catholic Institution recently
Codex Alexandrius-found in Alexandria
The Textus Receptus-manuscripts mostly from Antioch, but also have manuscripts from as far away as Britain
Receptus was assembled and "revised" by Erasmus, a Catholic scholar during the Reformation.
Those are the facts I know off the top of my head.
In the gospels alone, Vaticanus and Sinaiticus disagree with each other over 3,000 times.
Alexandrius is the only Codex that has Revelation (Receptus does)
gtg, it's time for the Sabbath meal, just remember that Receptus was used by Christendom for 1800 years before the new Codexes were found.
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