List of Totally or Partially Omitted, Transposed and Interpolated Bible Passages

PrincetonGuy said:

The text of 2 Sam. 21:19 has been badly corrupted. Compare 1 Chronicles 20:4-8,

1 Chronicles 20:4. After this, war broke out with the Philistines at Gezer; then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, who was one of the descendants of the giants; and the Philistines were subdued.
5. Again there was war with the Philistines; and Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
6. Again there was war at Gath, where there was a man of great size, who had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; he also was descended from the giants.
7. When he taunted Israel, Jonathan son of Shimea, David's brother, killed him.
8. These were descended from the giants in Gath; they fell by the hand of David and his servants. (NRSV)

Compare also the Targum of 2 Sam. 21:19,

“David, the son of Jesse, a pious man, who rose at midnight to sing praises to God, slew Lachmi, the brother of Goliath, the same day on which he slew Goliath the Gittite, whose spear-staff was like a weaver’s beam.”

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And this is relevant to the Gospel in what way?

I mean, obviously, we want an accurate Old Testament; but above all we want one that makes the Christological prophecies which according to Luke ch. 24, to the words of our Lord, where he opened the Books of the Law and Prophets and showed the Apostles how all of these spoke of Him, to be as clear as possible (for this reason I mostly prefer the Septuagint; the only places where the MT seems superior to the LXX that I can think of off the top of my head are in Psalm 2:12 and 22:16, but the LXX is superior elsewhere, particularly Psalm 95 v. 5, which is more useful than the MT’s rather obvious 96 v. 5 (the versification differences cause the psalm numbering to be out of sync by that point).

Thus I prefer a fusion of the two, not unlike the Vulgate except with a preference for the most Christological reading with no a priori assumption that the Hebraic text is more reliable, since alas, we know the Church controlled the LXX text by the end of the second century, presumably due to most Hellenic Jews being converted to Christ or reverting to a stricter form of Rabnnical Judaism influenced by the Pharisaical traditions that were at the time in the process of being compiled, eventually to become the Mishnah, following the failed Bar Kochba revolt and the demise of the Septuagint and Essene forms of Judaism.

WordSword said:

The Received Text (Textus Receptus) is quite similar to the Majority Text (MT) and the Byzantine Text (BT), as they all share a common textual tradition. - Wikipedia puritanboard.com

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Except the Received Text isn't the Majority Text, for the reasons I've given. Parts of it, including things you cited as things omitted from Critical Text-based bibles, go completely against the Majority Text and are downright indefensible on Majority Text principles.

I'll cut to the chase and ask you to clarify matters. What are you advocating, exactly? If you are advocating for the Majority Text, then you should revise your list to actually compare the Majority Text and Critical Text, as there are various things there that are cited as divergences even though they are the same in either.

If you are instead advocating for the Received Text (well, one of the Received Texts, there are multiple versions), then you have to abandon defenses for the Majority Text because the Received Text, as noted, doesn't follow it. Defenses of the Received Text are constantly inconsistent because they have to talk up the importance of the Majority Text for most of it, and then have to throw all of that away in order to try to defend other readings.

So exactly what are you advocating for?

WordSword said:

Concerning the OT reference, it was an example of the KJV italicizing absent scripture. They are the most consistent users of italicizing! BTW, I would never desire a Bible (to each his own) that prints that Error in 2Sam 21:19. The NIV had it that way up until recent:

The New International Version (NIV) changed the translation of 2 Samuel 21:19—which previously stated that Elhanan killed Goliath (1984 edition) to stating that he killed the brother of Goliath—in the 2011 revision.

• NIV 1984: "...Elhanan son of Jaare-Oregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite...".
• NIV 2011: "...Elhanan son of Jair the Bethlehemite killed the brother of Goliath the Gittite...". -Google AI

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Regardless of what one thinks of this example, this is the Old Testament, and thus has no relevance to the question of the Critical Text/Received Text/Majority Text, because the Old Testament isn't translated from those.