English Family 35 New Testament (ENGF35)

Overview

Wilbur Pickering, the translator of the English Family 35 New Testament, is an SIL-affiliated linguist who worked among the Apurinã people of Brazil. He privileges the Family 35 (f35) manuscript line, which he regards as divinely inspired, arguing that it preserves the precise original wording of the Greek New Testament. In Pickering’s exact words, the work contains the “precise original wording of the NT, and that we can, and do, know what it is based on an empirical procedure.” His English rendering accompanies a Greek edition collated from f35 witnesses, and the text functions in part as an interlinear that compares different families of well-known biblical manuscripts, with marginal notes flagging variants in other text-types.

Language and People

English (ISO 639-3: eng) is spoken by approximately 379,000,000 people. [Glottolog: stan1293]

Publishing and Organizations

Translation type: New.

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