Conflation of Readings
Conflation of readings is the term for intentional changes in the text made by the scribe, who used two or more manuscripts with two or more textual variants and created another textual form. The term is used in New Testament textual criticism.
Fenton Hort gave eight examples from Mark and Luke in which the Byzantine text-type had combined Alexandrian and Western readings. It was one of the three Hort's arguments that the Alexandrian text is the youngest.
Other textual critics gave more examples of conflation.
Luke 24:53
Metzger gave as an example
