ksen

I just took Dean Burgon's Revision Revised (or via: amazon.co.uk) off my bookshelf to read. I've read parts of it for a course but have not as yet sat down and read it through from the beginning to the end.

What are your thoughts on Burgon generally and this book in particular?

If the thread gets into what Westcott and Hort were up that's fine with me too.

andrewcriddle

Burgon wrote before several important discoveries of ancient NT texts such as the Sinaitic Syriac and papyri such as P75.

IMO his ideas were, at the time he wrote, contrary to the most straightforward way of interpreting the evidence. Subsequent discoveries have increased the difficulties of his position.

Andrew Criddle

Toto

There is a Dean Burgon Society (or is it a cult?) which supports the King James Version.

Doug Shaver

I'd never heard of him until now, as best I can remember.

I followed your link to Amazon and read the five reader reviews that have been posted so far. They were enough to convince me that the book would not be worth my time to read.