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Subject: Synoptic Harmonization
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James R. Adair wrote:
>            Let me encourage anyone who is interested to start a thread 
>of discussion, or two!

OK, here are some questions that have been bothering me for quite a
while.  I'll ask a general and a specific question.

To what extent does the textual critic take into account the possibility
that the reading in one of the synoptic gospels may have been harmonized
to another?  Which of the synoptics is more prone to harmonization than
the others?

Specifically, I have a question about Mt19:20 --

EFULACA
	{A} 01* B L Theta f1 579 900 it.aur,ff1,g1,l vg Jermoe etc.
EFULACA EK NEOTHTOS (see Lk18:21)
	(01.d NEOTHTOS MOU) D it.d
EFULACAMHN EK NEOTHTOS MOU (see Mk10:20)
	C W Delta f13 28 33 etc. Byz

Although the EFULACAMHN ... reading is attributed to harmonization to
Mark in my UBS4 apparatus and is not found in the best manuscripts,
what about the fact the middle voice presents a more difficult reading
(it seems to be a Semiticism/LXXism; good literary Greek calls for the
active voice)?  Finally, vv16, 17, 20 in many MSS (esp. Byzantines)
show a harmonization to Mark (and Luke).  Is this typical?  I would
thing that, given the importance of Matthew, that the harmonization
would go the other direction.

Stephen Carlson
-- 
Stephen C. Carlson, George Mason University School of Law, Patent Track, 4LE
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