Recension

Recension is the practice of editing or revising a text based on critical analysis.^[1] When referring to manuscripts, this may be a revision by another author. The term is derived from Latin recensio ("review, analysis").

In textual criticism (as is the case with Biblical scholarship) the count noun recension is a family of manuscripts sharing similar traits;^[2] for example, the Alexandrian text-type 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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• Biblical manuscript
• Categories of New Testament manuscripts
• Critical apparatus

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