The Identity of the New Testament Text III
Published: Wilbur N. Pickering, ThM PhD
Our Ref: Pickering-V.III
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For some time, Wilbur N. Pickering has felt that among the many hundreds of Greek manuscripts known to exist today, surely God would have preserved the original wording. After years of searching and comparing Greek New Testament manuscripts, he has concluded that God used a certain line of transmission to preserve that wording. That line is by far the largest and most cohesive of all manuscript groups, or families. It is distinguished from all other groups by the high level of care with which it was
copied (Pickering holds copies of perfect manuscripts for 22 of the 27 books). It is both ancient and independent, and is the only one that has a demonstrable archetypal form in all 27 books. That archetypal form has been empirically, objectively identified by a wide comparison of family representatives, and it is indeed error free.
As Pickering expected, that error-free text is not seriously different from some of the other “good” Greek texts. Nevertheless he has done an English translation based on it.
Wilbur N. Pickering is serving as a missionary in Brazil. He holds both a ThM and a PhD in linguistics. He joined Wycliffe Bible Translators in 1958, and went to Brazil in 1961 to do translation work with the Apurinã.
