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On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, Dale M. Wheeler wrote:

> I've also had several ask who I think "did it," if Lucian didn't.  I
> personally don't think anyone "did it," but I thought it would be
> interesting to see what those whose expertise is TC thought about whether
> Lucian did it or not, and why (please give data, if possible).  Anyone want
> to respond ??

I would here agree with Dale, i.e., that no one "did it."  Of course I do
not view the Byzantine Textform as the product of a recension or even of a
"process" method such as Colwell proposed. 

But even if Hort and others were correct that a "Syrian recension" had
occurred, Lucian would probably be the least likely person to have been
involved in such, since he died ca.314, and condemnation rather than
acceptance was made regarding the "codices which Lucian falsified" (which
from all indications were of the OT LXX and not the NT at all). 

I would suggest (contra Fee) that a better case can be made for the
Alexandrian text as the product of second-century recensional activity
than for the Byzantine; but even in that case Lucian would have had
nothing to do with any NT recension, and the archetype Alexandrian text 
likely would antedate Lucian in any case.


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                       Maurice A. Robinson, Ph.D.
            Associate Professor of Greek and New Testament
              Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
                      Wake Forest, North Carolina
                   
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