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January 15, 1863 – August 23, 1952

Sir Frederic George Kenyon GBE KCB TD FBA FSA (15 January 1863 – 23 August 1952) was a British paleographer and biblical and classical scholar. Kenyon was a noted scholar of ancient languages, and made a life-long study of the Bible, especially the New Testament as an historical text.

It is indeed a striking proof of the essential soundness of the tradition that with which all these thousands of copies, tracing their ancestry back to so many different parts of the earth and to conditions of such diverse kinds, the variations of text are so entirely questions of detail, not of essential substance.

Chapter X, The Position Today, p. 136

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The publication of the Revised New Testament by the two University Presses on May 17, 1881, was the most sensational in the annals of publishing.

Frederic G. Kenyon
— Chapter VIII, The Age Of Discoveries, p. 87

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The Bible has a human history as well as a divine inspiration. It is a history full of interest, and it is one which all those who value their Bible should know, at least in outline, if only that they may be able to meet the criticisms of sceptics and the ignorant.

Frederic G. Kenyon
— Chapter I, The Bible And Recent Discoveries, p. 2

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The history of the Bible text is a romance of literature, though it is a romance of which the consequences are of vital import; and thanks to the succession of discoveries which have been made of late years, we know more about it than of the history of any other ancient book in the world.

Frederic G. Kenyon
— Chapter I, The Bible And Recent Discoveries, p. 4

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It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers.

Frederic G. Kenyon
— Chapter III, How The Books Of The New Testament Were Written, p. 21

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All we can say is that, as the result of a process which went on from the fourth century to about the eighth, a standard type of text was produced, which is found in the vast majority of the manuscripts that have come down to us. At least ninety-six per cent of the extant manuscripts of the Greek New Testament are later than the eighth century; and of those only a handful preserve traces of the other types of text which were in existence before the adoption of the standard text, and out of which it was created.

Frederic G. Kenyon
— Chapter IV, From manuscript To Print, p. 39

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Throughout, the work of Tyndale formed the foundation, and more than anyone else he established the rhythms and furnished much of the language which is familiar to us in the Authorised Version.

Frederic G. Kenyon
— Chapter V, The English Bible, p. 49

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No serious student of the Bible in English can neglect the Revised Version without loss.

Frederic G. Kenyon
— Chapter VII, The Revision Of The Text, p. 86

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The New Testament was not produced as a single work issued by an authoritative Church for the instruction of its members. The four Gospels were composed in different times and places over perhaps a third of a century, and for a time circulated separately among a number of other narratives of our Lord's life (of which the newly discovered fragment of an unknown gospel may have been one).

Frederic G. Kenyon
— Chapter X, The Position Today, p. 133

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The Gospels were not thought of as works of literature. People were not concerned with the literary reputation of Matthew or Mark, but with the substance of their records of our Lord's life. They did not have to respect their actual words, as they would if they were transcribing the works of Thucydides or Plato.

Frederic G. Kenyon
— Chapter X, The Position Today, p. 135

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The aim of the scholarly editor is not to produce the the easiest text for the reader, but to get as near as he can to the text of the author.

Frederic G. Kenyon
— Chapter X, The Position Today, p. 142

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Seldom can two such epoch-making events have occurred in successive years as happened then. In 1453 the Turks stormed Constantinople and finally destroyed the Greek Empire, driving out Greek scholars, who carried the knowledge of Greek language and literature to the western world; and in 1454 the first document known to us appeared from the printing press at Mainz.

Frederic G. Kenyon
— Chapter IV, From manuscript To Print, p. 41-42

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The apostles were scattered, and even the leaders of the Church in Jerusalem had neither the power nor the means to impose uniformity.In these circumstances, we must imagine the literature of Christianity as spreading gradually, irregularly, and in a manner which variations inevitable.

Frederic G. Kenyon
— Chapter X, The Position Today, p. 134

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