I would take issue with your statement that "First Testament" shows respect for the Jewish faith: it is merely another moniker for something superseded. And ...
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Felix Sung ...
Dec 1, 1995 6:14 pm
... On the other hand, there is (in North America at least) an inherent, connotative bias toward understanding "first" in terms of primacy of place or quality...
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Mark O'Brien ...
Dec 1, 1995 6:33 pm
After Dan Wallace published his article advocating the use of the MT as the best collating base, I'm curious to know how many of you have switched to using the...
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David Moore ...
Dec 1, 1995 6:54 pm
... I hope no one minds if some of us continue to use the terms "Old Testament" and "New Testament." It's good to do what one can so as not to offend those...
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Robert Groover ...
Dec 1, 1995 7:02 pm
... I think this is quite correct, and exactly the point of the proposed change in terminology. However, I have a more basic question: I understand that...
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Bart Ehrman ...
Dec 1, 1995 8:57 pm
In reply to Mark O'Brien's important question, I can say that I for one am convinced that Wallace is right (that there are real advantages to collating against...
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James Mallon ...
Dec 2, 1995 3:16 am
The vary nature of inter-religious dialogue is the respect for the faith and beliefs of others. This involves a clear understanding of each group's beliefs....
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Maurice Robinson ...
Dec 2, 1995 7:58 am
... Even as a pro-Byzantine supporter, I also concur with Bart Ehrman on this. In an ideal world, in which the early TR editions had in fact been 100%...
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Timster132@... ...
Dec 2, 1995 10:07 am
In a message dated 95-12-01 19:18:25 EST, j.mallon@... (James Mallon) ... I for one would like to encourage Jewish/Tanakh scholars to use this list, ...
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Timster132@... ...
Dec 2, 1995 10:07 am
In a message dated 95-12-01 10:36:23 EST, Mark_O'Brien@... (Mark O'Brien) ... At first I thought MT meant Masoretic Text, since we've been discussing ...
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David Moore ...
Dec 2, 1995 9:46 pm
... I think Tim underestimates most Jewish scholars in thinking that they might shrink at their Christian colleagues' use of terms like "Old Testament" and...
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Timster132@... ...
Dec 4, 1995 11:27 am
... David, That's kind of like the American traveler that goes abroad and expects everyone in the world to speak English and is put off because they do not. ...
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Robert Groover ...
Dec 4, 1995 3:27 pm
... If that's your objective, then you can use "Pentateuch", "Prophets," "Tanakh," or such terms (or, when appropriate, "LXX"). ... No, repudiating...
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James R. Adair ...
Dec 4, 1995 5:26 pm
I think the discussion that has ensued as a result of my original post has demonstrated that there is not any single term to describe the textual criticism of...
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David Moore ...
Dec 4, 1995 7:39 pm
... Mutual respect is fine; I'm all for it. But may I suggest that mutual respect is more readily recognizable when it is expressed freely than when it is...
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Mark O'Brien ...
Dec 4, 1995 7:44 pm
... Errr... sorry about that, Tim! You are absolutely correct, of course. One does tend to get a little buried in some of these acronyms after a while, but...
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Mark O'Brien ...
Dec 4, 1995 10:51 pm
Original message sent on Fri, Dec 1 5:56 PM by mrobinsn@... ... Although I understand the amount of work required to make this switch (which...
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Dale M. Wheeler ...
Dec 5, 1995 12:36 am
... This is a general misconception of what Hodges and Farstad were trying to accomplish with their text. The point was not to produce a Majority text for its...
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Mark O'Brien ...
Dec 5, 1995 1:53 am
Original message sent on Fri, Dec 1 6:28 AM by behrman@... (Bart ... Dr. Ehrman, I appreciated your comments. However, I still have some questions ...
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SEM_MED@...
Dec 5, 1995 2:50 am
I am a newcomer to textual criticism, having been led here by my research on the sound of Greek in the Hellenistic period. My dissertation analyzes the aural...
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Bart Ehrman ...
Dec 5, 1995 3:22 am
Mark, Certainly if one compares MSS *only* in places of variation from the TR, the quantitative analysis will be skewed. This was clearly shown by Colwell and...
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Maurice Robinson ...
Dec 5, 1995 7:55 am
... I would differ somewhat with that assessment, since they admittedly only applied this principle to the Pericope Adultera and the book of Revelation, due to...
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Maurice Robinson ...
Dec 5, 1995 8:02 am
... Although addressed to Bart (who can well speak for himself on this matter), I would fully concur that, for quantitative analysis, data based solely on a...
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Dale M. Wheeler ...
Dec 5, 1995 9:47 am
You're welcome... I actually think that we are in agreement about the nature and purpose of what Hodges & Farstad were trying to do. As I said, it was an...
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Elston Gunn ...
Dec 6, 1995 1:25 am
... I still retain some doubts on this score, particularly in light of a (currently) privately-circulated paper by Wilbur Pickering in which he devastates what...
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Timster132@... ...
Dec 6, 1995 8:47 pm
... Margaret, I don't have a copy of Vaticanus here, but I did get to look at photocopies of a couple leaves of that manuscript I had handy. Looking at the...
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Timster132@... ...
Dec 6, 1995 8:47 pm
In a message dated 95-12-05 mrobinsn@... ... Isn't that the point? H&F believe in an omnipotent God who has providentially preserved the...
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Dale M. Wheeler ...
Dec 6, 1995 10:22 pm
... providentially ... "Majority ... I'm not trying to defend H&F or their theory here, but this again is another misconception about their view. There are...
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Maurice Robinson ...
Dec 7, 1995 5:02 am
... But if the result does not reflect the "majority";, H/F or Pickering are being quite hypocritical. Why not call their text the "theologically-correct" text...
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Maurice Robinson ...
Dec 7, 1995 5:06 am
... I am not certain whether the original reference was to the sectional markings (which were added later) or to certain lines in which the initial letter is...
