Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetFrederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
British theologian
Date of Birth: 29-Sep-1813
Place of Birth: Bermondsey, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 30-Oct-1891
Profession: theologian
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
- Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener (September 29, 1813, Bermondsey, Surrey – October 30, 1891, Hendon, Middlesex) was a New Testament textual critic and a member of the English New Testament Revision Committee which produced the Revised Version of the Bible.
- He was prebendary of Exeter, and vicar of Hendon. Graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1835 after studying at Southwark, he became a teacher of classics at a number of schools in southern England, and from 1846 to 1856 was headmaster of a school in Falmouth, Cornwall.
- He was also for 15 years rector of Gerrans, Cornwall. Initially making a name for himself editing the Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis, Scrivener edited several editions of the New Testament and collated the Codex Sinaiticus with the Textus Receptus.
- For his services to textual criticism and the understanding of biblical manuscripts, he was granted a Civil list pension in 1872.
- He was an advocate of the Byzantine text (majority text) over more modern manuscripts as a source for Bible translations.
- He was the first to distinguish the Textus Receptus from the Byzantine text.
- Scrivener compared the Textus Receptus with the editions of Stephanus (1550), Theodore Beza (1565), and Elzevier (1633) and enumerated all the differences.
- In addition he identified the differences between the Textus Receptus and editions by Lachmann, Tregelles, and Tischendorf.
- Scrivener doubted the authenticity of texts like Matthew 16:2b–3, Christ's agony at Gethsemane, John 5:3.4, and the Pericope Adulterae. In 1874, he became prebendary of Exeter and vicar of Hendon, where he remained for the rest of his life.
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