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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 "unfortunate"
accident of history that precisely the book which has the most distinctively
different textual history was also the book which Hodges chose to show the
application of stemmatics to...because it had the most complete analysis
(Hoskier, Schmidt)...because it had the most distinctively different textual
history...Whew......... Such a situation left them in, to say the least, an
awkward position. I think its fair to say that they both believe that if
such a stemmatic reconstruction were to be applied to the rest of the NT,
the Byz text would stand at the top of the stemma (whether that would truly
be the case is another issue altogether), thus the title--for better or
worse-- "Majority Text."
Besides, who'd want to buy the "Stemmatically-reconstructed Text" or the
"Intra-Byzantine Stemmatic(Minority) Text"...somehow they just don't quite
have the right ring to them.... :-)
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