Greetings J. M. Rieser: I have good news for you. Some very good text-critical resources are available online, for free. If you join the TC-Alternate Yahoo! ...
The reason I asked what your source for Vaticanus was, is that it is not customary to cite Vaticanus for Revelation, since it did not contain it. The link you...
ROBERT - I am much indebted to your generosity - thank you! For anyone else interested in this, here is one correction as far as the last web site given:...
... There are a number of older resources available on-line because their copyright has run out, Because of their age, they are not likely to contain much...
... Do you mean the Old Persian? The Today's Persian Version isn't going to read any different than UBS. I have a copy, along with the 1904 BFBS edition, and...
Dear Sirs: I am currently enrolled at Phoenix Seminary and have gained a strong interest in some text-critical issues despite not being adept at Greek. Are...
this is the link for codex vaticanus http://www.csntm.com/Manuscripts/GA%2003/GA03_148a.jpg I am an Arabic Egyptian, I don't know Farsi All Arabic bibles I...
One important correction to your interpretation of the K-Liste, Daniel: column 5 lists leaves, not pages. 115 leaves = 230 pages. Dan Wallace ... Sent: Mon, 26...
Hello Mr. Shahin, welcome. Here are the highlights from Hoskier I have done for you on that variant in Revelation 3:14. By highlights I mean I have not listed...
This variant is listed in the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum, the standard critical edition of the Greek New Testament. The information there is that the...
The Kurzgefasste Liste (The "Short summary list" of all identified Gk mss, put out by Mnster) has a lot of crypic information in it, which the student of...
Dr. Ehrman: Getting back to you about "Orthodox Corruption of Scripture" -- I regret that I just don't have time to compose a reply that would adequately...
CSA, the Arabic Gospels that was among the MSS discovered at St. Catherine's in 1975, is to be published digitally by the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. (I think....
Sure, Eddie. Certainly there were single scribes that may have copied a mss and perhaps had two exemplars from different text types. I would think that any...
Which scribes are we talking about, Jewish, Christian, which era, which region? ... would only use "one manuscript" when making a new manuscript/copy. This ...
... Not necessarily, particularly with very early papyri. It's also possible that there were many variations in the early tradition and that some of them were...
If my memory serves me correctly, I have read where several early mss are of the Alexandrian text-type but have Western readings in some passages or verses....
Eddie Mishoe, EM: "What happens if the copies of each text are all copies of the Gospel of John? Can there be a recension in this instance?" Yes; that's the...
Hi Joe: It was a common practice for a lector to read aloud an exemplar manuscript to a number of scribes at once, each making a copy. Sort of an ancient...
James Snapp: Regarding this paragraph that you wrote: "Arnold aspires to make a recension: he compares the copies of each text, weeds out obvious scribal...
Yes Tim, i agree that the "typical" act was to use a single MS, as there's no reason for using more "generally". But this answer, i see, till now,...
Dear Fadie, I agree with you that the copying process was influenced by many factors and that there is no single rule. However, when you think of the thousands...
Dear Eddie, ... I don't know what a typical scribe would presume about the exemplar. A typical scribe would be well aware that textual variations occur because...
Eddie Mishoe: The line between recension and redaction is fuzzy. I'd put it this way: A person who undertakes recension [sometimes spelled "rescension," and ...
I have two questions just to be on the safe side. 1. Recension is apparently used in multiple senses. Can someone help me understand the main senses of this...
