Syriac translations of the New Testament were among the first and date from the 2nd century. The whole Bible was translated by the 5th century.
Syriac Versions—Curetonian, Philoxenian, Harclean, Palestinian, Sinaitic, Peshitta
Byzantine Text-Type of Greek New Testament Manuscripts
The Majority Text is nearly synonymous with the Byzantine Text because it was in Byzantium (and surrounds) that the Lucian text was copied again and again until it was standardized in thousands of manuscripts. (Phillip Comfort)
Lucian of Antioch (c. 240-312 C.E.): the Path to the Byzantine Text
Lucian of Antioch shaped the Byzantine text through conflation and harmonization, creating a corrupt recension far removed from the original autographs.
