sep 12, 1466 - Erasmus

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In the 16th century, the philosopher Erasmus boldly corrected and edited the Bible to make it more faithful to the original Greek texts.
In the preface Erasmus exhorts his readers to study Scripture and he defends his methodology
Motivated by his disdain for errors in the manuscripts, blunders in translation, and the inaccuracies of sleepy scribes (noted in Epistle 182), Erasmus produced a work which altered the course of textual criticism.

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