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Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

Entity ID:

frederick-henry-ambrose-scrivener

Long Name:

Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose, 1813-1891

Short Name:

Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

Disambiguation String:

English New Testament textual critic

Entity Type:

person

Entity Subtype:

author

Wikipedia

Summary:

Born at Southwark, Scrivener was educated at Falmouth School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He later became the headmaster of Falmouth (1846-1856) and prebendary of Exeter (1874-1891). Scrivener spent his entire career working on New Testament manuscripts. He published the texts of twenty manuscripts (including Codex Augiensis and the miniscule 81), produced a list of all extant manuscripts, and created a system for classifying manuscripts. As an enthusiastic supporter of the Textus Receptus, he opposed the text produced by Westcott and Hort but did not gain a following among biblical scholars. He is well known for his book, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament (1894).

Viaf ID:

75300714

DB Pedia ID:

Frederick_Henry_Ambrose_Scrivener

Biblical Status:

Not Biblical

Is An Individual:

Yes

Is Published:

Yes

Birth Date:

September 29, 1813

Death Date:

October 30, 1891

Occupation:

English New Testament textual critic

Works:

Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament

Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I

Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II