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From: Bart Ehrman 
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Subject: Re: Collation against MT vs. TR
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   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 the MT rather than the TR), BUT, that we should
nonetheless not begin doing so.  If we were to begin our discipline again,
from scratch, this would clearly be the way to go.  The difficulty is that
we have *so many* collations already made and available against the TR,
that if we were now to shift to the MT, these older collations would be of
little use to us.  We would have to look at *two* sets of data (the
original collation and a collation of the TR against the MT) to make any
use of them.  As the pay-off is not all that significant in the long run
anyway, I'm firmly of the opinion that we should continue using TR, simply
for the sake of convenience and to avoid unneeded and unnecessary delays
in doing what needs to be done -- collecting all the textual data at our
disposal.  (Once these materials are all entered on computer data bases,
of course, the original collation base is completely immaterial). 

-- Bart D. Ehrman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

On Fri, 1 Dec 1995, Mark O'Brien wrote:

> 
> 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 MT in this way, and how many of you have 
> stuck to the TR.  I'm more interested in knowing why you have stuck to
> the TR as a collating base, especially in the light of Wallace's comments
> on the advantages of using the "most inferior text" (as he terms it)
> as your collating base, especially for the purposes of quantitative
> analysis. 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark O'Brien
> Grad. student, NT
> Dallas Theological Seminary
> ----
> "We were put on earth to accomplish a certain number of things.  Right now, I'm
> so far behind, I will never die!"
> 

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