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> Friends,
>
> It is well known that Hebrew Bible text criticism takes as its starting 
point
> the MT (as preserved in Codex Leningrad).  Variants are assembled and
> evaluated in comparison to this text.
> Why, then, is NT text criticism based on a method that is apparently 
somewhat
> scattered and piecemeal?  There does not appear to be one NT text upon 
which
> comparison of variants is based.  Would TC not be easier if text critics at
> least agreed that Sinaiticus (for instance) were the base text and then
> variants could be placed in the margin (as is the case in BHS for the 
Hebrew
> Bible)?  Then these variants could be evaluated for what they were worth.
>
> Seeking to know in the wilderness of E. Tennessee,
>
>
> Jim West


I think OT TC must adjust to NT and for that matter Septuagintal methodology!
The time is ripe to reconstruct an OT critical text! I argued it in the
Festschrift for FC Fensham in 1986.

Johann Cook
University of Stellenbosch
SOUTH AFRICA

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