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On Wed, 1 May 1996, Stephen C Carlson wrote:

> Maurice Robinson wrote:

> >The UBS apparatus is not exactly biassed toward texttype 
> >interrelationships. The data taken from that apparatus still point to a 
> >high degree of "mixture" in all non-Byzantine witnesses, and a mixture 
> >which does not occur in any predictable pattern.
 
> In a brief comparison between my UBS4 (2d printing, which don't find
> difficult to read) and Hodges & Farstad, it is clear to me that
> numerous Byzantine-specific readings are not cited in UBS4.  So I
> would say the UBS apparatus is biased against those readings in which
> the Byzantine texttype is the only support.
> 
> If the goal is to determine how Byzantine the Vulgate is, the UBS
> apparatus almost systematically excludes the evidence most desired.

The statistical issue raised in regard to the UBS apparatus is primarily in 
regard to establishing basic MS interrelationships by way of 
near-neighbor clusters.  For that purpose, the elimination of the 
strictly Byzantine readings would not change the normal totals which 
might be arrived at by analysis of the remaining readings.  

In the case of the Vulgate, I think that any comparison of the 
performance of the Vulgate versus "M" in N26 in those places which the 
UBS apparatus did not touch will show that the Vulgate hardly gets more 
"Byzantine" in places where the Byzantine reading is the strongest.  
Rather, the Vulgate partakes of a certain degree (ca.40%) of Byzantine 
"tendency" more in places where the Byzantine reading itself is divided 
and portions shared among MSS of other texttypes.  My suspicion is that, 
were the more purely Byzantine readings added in from N27, the Vulgate 
would end up appearing even LESS aligned with the Byzantine Textform than 
the UBS data tend to imply. 

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Maurice A. Robinson, Ph.D.           Assoc. Prof./Greek and New Testament
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary     Wake Forest, North Carolina
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