[1] The King James Version and other Reformation-era Bibles are translated from the Textus Receptus, a Greek text created by Erasmus and based on various manuscripts of the Byzantine type.
In 1721, Richard Bentley outlined a project to create a revised Greek text based on the Codex Alexandrinus.
Novum Testamentum Graece by Eberhard Nestle and Kurt Aland, now in its 28th edition, generally follows the text of Westcott and Hort.
Most Greek uncial manuscripts were recopied in this period and their parchment leaves typically scraped clean for re-use.
[citation needed] A number of substantial papyrus manuscripts of portions of the New Testament survive from earlier still, and those that can be ascribed a text-type, such as 𝔓66 and 𝔓75 from the second to the third century, also tend to witness to the Alexandrian text.
[8] All extant manuscripts of all text-types are at least 85% identical and most of the variations are not translatable into English, such as word order or spelling.
When compared to witnesses of the Western text-type, Alexandrian readings tend to be shorter and are commonly regarded as having a lower tendency to expand or paraphrase.
[9] When compared to witnesses of the Byzantine text type, Alexandrian manuscripts tend: The above comparisons are tendencies, rather than consistent differences.