... One cannot, of course, be _certain_; one can only deal in relative plausibilities. This is the normal course of human events outside of mathematics and...
Thank you for your response, Jean-Francois. I realize that TC can be a very conjectural endeavor, whose claims, along lines suggested by Tony, needs to be...
C. K. Barrett writes, in his commentary on John (2nd ed., p. 589), that John 7:53-8:11 "is omitted by P66 P75 [aleph] B A [theta] and many other early Greek...
James, Thank you for explaining your question further. Allow me to reply with an additional question: should one assume that the original text is devoid of any...
... Never. In fact, many of what is considered "original" is determined so because it was originally a mistake and later editors "corrected" it. Chris...
... the best ... I once wrote to the library but never got a response. I would love to see a high-res online image, too. It's one of the important papyri, of...
Hi textucalcriticism, "Jean-Francois Racine" ... So would it be fair to say that the presups of modern textual criticism include the assumption of an errant...
... Hello again Jean-Francois: I believe it is a faulty assumption of TC that such were not present in the original work, and that other basic assumptions made...
(((((((((((((((((( So would it be fair to say that the presups of modern textual criticism include the assumption of an errant autographa ? )))))))))))))))))))...
... I was talking about fakes in general -- how do we detect them? Anachronism is our primary test, is it not? But SC's book is good on this. It mustn't just...
... Probably the college want money to allow one to be made, and more to appear online. Obscurantism in such matters is endemic in UK librarianship, in my...
Hi TC, Interesting discussion of what is 'error'. Hope it is ok to try to jump in. ... This remains an excellent question. One could also ask about a possible...
Two people could both conclude that the ancestor to a manuscript or a pair of manuscripts that they are examining had an error in it and be in complete...
Please forgive me if this is offtopic but I have been looking at some of the pictures of the newly discovered mosaic floor in Israel, and was interested in one...
Ted, I think you're on target about the inscription. No matter why the spelling is given as "Aketous" in the article you mention, the name is actually...
Greetings, In Dr. Metzger's Textual Commentary (p. 220) he states concerning the PA "No Greek Church Father prior to Euthymius Zigabenus (twelfth century)...
Greetings, As Wieland's "paper" (nice word for an internet publication) shows, the story itself being known is something else than the story being part of ...
Dear list, I would also take a look at William L. Petersen, "OUDE EGW SE [KATA]KRINW: John 8:11, the Protevangelium Iacobi, and the History of the Pericope...
Hi TC, Thank you Curtis, Ann, Tommy and Andrew. Bruce Metzger "No Greek Church Father prior to Euthymius Zigabenus (twelfth century) comments on the passage,...
 ... Isn't the standard understanding of who the "Greek Fathers" were/are "those who were of Greek ancestry, whose first tongue was Greek, and who ...
Hi TC, ... Jeffrey, ... To simplify the issue ... why is "Greek ancestry, whose first tongue was Greek, and who **wrote** in Greek" Even a particular relevant...
 ... It isn't -- since the issue isn't their -- or anyone's -- "textual authority" (even assuming that term is meaningful in this context), but by whom,...
Going over WH's introduction, I see that they address the matter of whether codices S and B might be copies made from a common exemplar. The question is...
... From: Jeffrey B. Gibson To: textualcriticism@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 1:12 PM Subject: Re: [textualcriticism] The Pericope...
Hi TC, ... Jeffrey ... Schmuel No, that is not why these artificial formulations are created. They are used as an apologetic for explaining why the minority...
Greek fathers - messianism etc.: This leads to nothing. Please continue off-list. Discussing the TC of the PA is of course allowed. Best wishes Wieland <>< ......
