Not only exciting news, but an interesting adventure story as well. Dan is the man. Ron Minton 2008/6/24 Wieland Willker <wie@...>: New manuscripts...
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Wieland Willker
blende7
Jun 28, 2008 4:29 pm
I finally finished my way through the latest IGNTP volume on the majuscules of John. What I liked about the volume is that they wrote how they analyzed each of...
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Kevin Bushnell
uacna
Jun 28, 2008 4:08 pm
Wieland, Thanks for the updates. It is quite exciting to read about new manuscript finds. And just when everyone was getting used to the thought that there...
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Wieland Willker
blende7
Jun 24, 2008 10:36 am
The text of f1 is quite good in Matthew. Therefore it is good to have additional witnesses. MS 652 is f1 in Mt from 22:15 on to the end. This has been...
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Wieland Willker
blende7
Jun 24, 2008 6:50 am
New manuscripts ... Read here: http://bible.org/page.php?page_id=5972 Best wishes Wieland <>< ... Wieland Willker, Bremen, Germany mailto:wie@... ...
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Wieland Willker
blende7
Jun 23, 2008 4:58 pm
... From: Billie Jean Collins [mailto:billie.collins@...] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 6:07 PM To: wie@... Subject: Please post to TC list ...
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Jon
jmeythaler
Jun 23, 2008 6:07 am
I should point out that "the vast majority" of text variants might not amount to making a theological difference, yet there are examples of redaction that have...
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Tommy Wasserman
tommywasser
Jun 23, 2008 6:06 am
Hi Chaim, For an overview of the state of the Western Text in Contemporary Research, you can turn to J. Delobel, "Focus on the 'Western' Text in Recent...
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Jovial
jovial1000
Jun 20, 2008 11:04 am
There's some value in comparing variants, but one has to keep multiple things in mind, not the least of which is how important did the scribes consider it to...
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Wieland Willker
blende7
Jun 20, 2008 10:02 am
If I remember correctly there are about 4000 variants noted in NA for the Gospels. The online commentary discusses about 1250. Of these I would say only about...
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Peter M. Head
petermh2004
Jun 20, 2008 9:53 am
Dear Greg, Based on the Mill estimate approach then the definition of variant is a variant reading (supported by any number of manuscripts) sufficiently...
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Wieland Willker
blende7
Jun 20, 2008 8:45 am
This may be of interest. I haven't seen it and cannot judge it. I am just forwarding it. Best wishes Wieland <>< ... Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:35:12 +0100...
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James Snapp, Jr.
voxverax
Jun 20, 2008 6:08 am
Larry Swain, I don't have the info about where the manuscript was created and when it arrived in England, but I have a clue about where to find it: In J....
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Michael Marlowe
m_d_marlowe
Jun 20, 2008 6:07 am
Larry, I have a lot of information on the Mommsen List (also called the Cheltenham list) with bibliography here: ...
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gregsah
Jun 19, 2008 7:08 pm
Bart, Thank you for your affirmation that "the vast majority of textual variants are insignificant, immaterial, and unimportant..." I appreciate that. I'm...
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Chaim Weismann
weismannchaim
Jun 19, 2008 7:06 pm
Hi, Many thanks.This group is excellent. I ask: Do you know about some Yahoo or Google group about TC (Textual Criticism) but only about the Hebrew Bible or...
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Larry Swain
theswain
Jun 19, 2008 7:04 pm
... Well, I don't think Homeric text critics bother with counting the variants, to be honest. And there is an interesting new project underway that wants to...
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Larry Swain
theswain
Jun 19, 2008 2:59 pm
James, But not too late, and my sincere thanks! What I'm particularly interested in is the date of the manuscript: where was the manuscript created and is it...
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Eddie Mishoe
edmishoe
Jun 19, 2008 2:43 pm
Larry: Your assumption was correct. The reason for understanding the percent of GNT variants is to determine if the number is "high" or "low." When this is...
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Eddie Mishoe
edmishoe
Jun 19, 2008 2:35 pm
Dr. Ehrman: You wrote: "I should point out that Bart Ehrman stresses that the vast majority of textual variants are insignificant, immaterial..." I'm not so...
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Larry Swain
theswain
Jun 19, 2008 2:14 pm
... Pete, Thanks for the corrective, and I should have been clearer. When I was talking about significance, I was addressing not their significance as...
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Bart Ehrman
behrman@...
Jun 19, 2008 2:03 pm
I should point out that Bart Ehrman stresses that the vast majority of textual variants are insignificant, immaterial, and unimportant for anything other than...
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gregsah
Jun 19, 2008 1:54 pm
Pete, My request for information indicates that at least one person does want to know. Since current estimates are based on John Mill's 30,000 variants from...
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Peter M. Head
petermh2004
Jun 19, 2008 12:17 pm
... Nobody knows this 'number of known variants'. Nobody sensible has ever before wanted to know this. Whatever the number is, it won't matter to anyone, since...
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Peter M. Head
petermh2004
Jun 19, 2008 12:17 pm
I generally agree with Larry's remarks about the pointlessness of comparing the NT with Homer: "in the end, it doesn't tell us anything about scribal...
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gregsah
Jun 19, 2008 11:07 am
Yes, New Testament manuscripts. While many manuscripts have not been collated, does anyone know if there is any record of textual variants for each collated...
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Wieland Willker
blende7
Jun 19, 2008 7:43 am
For the reconstruction freaks (Peter Head et al.) I have found a nice problem (while reading Royse). Jo 17:7-8 and the correction at the top of the page. ...
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Wieland Willker
blende7
Jun 19, 2008 6:52 am
I have uploaded the following article with the consent of the author: "The Pachomian monastic library at the Chester Beatty Library and the Bibliothèque...
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James Snapp, Jr.
voxverax
Jun 19, 2008 6:19 am
Larry Swain, Alexander Souter, in his 1913 "The Text & Canon of the NT," offers the following on p. 212: (I've represented overlined characters as ...
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Larry Swain
theswain
Jun 18, 2008 5:43 pm
Steve, as usual, makes some very good points on the issue that bear thinking about. I'd like to address what I think is a more fundamental issue on this...
