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

A manuscript is any document that is written by hand, as opposed to being printed or reproduced in some other way. The term may also be used for information that is hand-recorded in other ways than writing, for example inscriptions that are chiselled upon a hard material or scratched as with a knife point in plaster or with a stylus on a wa...
s, this may be a revision by another author. The term is derived from Latin recensio "review, analysis".

In textual criticism
Textual criticism

Textual criticism is a branch of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in the Writing of manuscripts....
, particularly Biblical scholarship, the count noun
Count noun

In linguistics, a count noun is a noun which can be modified by a numeral and occur in both grammatical number and plural form, as well as co-occurring with quantificational determiners like every, each, several, etc....
 "recension" may be used to refer to a family of manuscript
Manuscript

A manuscript is any document that is written by hand, as opposed to being printed or reproduced in some other way. The term may also be used for information that is hand-recorded in other ways than writing, for example inscriptions that are chiselled upon a hard material or scratched as with a knife point in plaster or with a stylus on a wa...
s sharing similar traits; for example, the Alexandrian text-type
Alexandrian text-type

The Alexandrian text-type is one of several text-types used in New Testament textual criticism to describe and group the textual character of biblical manuscripts....
 may be referred to as the "Alexandrian recension".






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

A manuscript is any document that is written by hand, as opposed to being printed or reproduced in some other way. The term may also be used for information that is hand-recorded in other ways than writing, for example inscriptions that are chiselled upon a hard material or scratched as with a knife point in plaster or with a stylus on a wa...
s, this may be a revision by another author. The term is derived from Latin recensio "review, analysis".

In textual criticism
Textual criticism

Textual criticism is a branch of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in the Writing of manuscripts....
, particularly Biblical scholarship, the count noun
Count noun

In linguistics, a count noun is a noun which can be modified by a numeral and occur in both grammatical number and plural form, as well as co-occurring with quantificational determiners like every, each, several, etc....
 "recension" may be used to refer to a family of manuscript
Manuscript

A manuscript is any document that is written by hand, as opposed to being printed or reproduced in some other way. The term may also be used for information that is hand-recorded in other ways than writing, for example inscriptions that are chiselled upon a hard material or scratched as with a knife point in plaster or with a stylus on a wa...
s sharing similar traits; for example, the Alexandrian text-type
Alexandrian text-type

The Alexandrian text-type is one of several text-types used in New Testament textual criticism to describe and group the textual character of biblical manuscripts....
 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; for example, the compilation and collation
Collation

Collation is the assembly of written information into a standard order. One common type of collation is called alphabetisation, though collation is not limited to ordering letters of the alphabet....
 of the Qur'an
Qur'an

The Qur?an is the central religious text of Islam. Muslims believe the Qur?an to be the book of divine guidance and direction for mankind, and consider the original Arabic text to be the final revelation of God....
 by Uthman ibn Affan may be referred to as a process of recension.

See also

  • Biblical manuscript
    Biblical manuscript

    A Biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. The word Bible comes from the Greek biblion ; manuscript comes from Latin manu and scriptum ....
  • Categories of New Testament manuscripts
    Categories of New Testament manuscripts

    Biblical manuscript in Greek are categorized into five groups. This categorization scheme was introduced in 1981 by Kurt Aland and Barbara Aland in Der Text des Neuen Testaments....
  • Critical apparatus
    Critical apparatus

    The critical apparatus is the critical and primary source material that accompanies an edition of a text. A critical apparatus is often a by-product of textual criticism....
  • Torah redactor
    Torah redactor

    The Torah Redactor is, according to the Documentary Hypothesis , the figure who assembled hypothetical source texts of the Torah—the Deuteronomist, the Priestly source, and JE, which was an earlier joining of the Jahwist and the Elohist—resulting in a single work....