Recension is the practice of editing or revising a text based on critical analysis. When referring to

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s, this may be a revision by another author. The term is derived from

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''recensio'' ("review, analysis"). In

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(as is the case with

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) the

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''recension'' is a family of

s sharing similar traits;"Synoptic Gospels Primer: Recension"
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Alexandrian text-type In textual criticism of the New Testament, the Alexandrian text-type is one of the main text types. It is the text type favored by the majority of modern textual critics and it is the basis for most modern (after 1900) Bible translations. Over 5 ...

may be referred to as the "Alexandrian recension". The term ''recension'' may also refer to the process of collecting and analyzing source texts in order to establish a tree structure leading backward to a hypothetical original text.

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