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On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Carlton L. Winbery wrote:

> Larry has made an excellent statement that seems to me to account for the
> evidence that we have.  This explanation of the growth of texts makes
> unnecessary elaborate and imaginative explanations for obvious scribal
> improvements such as the obvious harmonization in I Thess. 1:1.

I'm not sure whether Larry's comments really serve to explain 1 Thess.1:1
on which I commented some time ago; but I hardly thought the explanation
of the non-Byzantine text as simple transcriptional error was "elaborate
or imaginative," given the extant data and postulating upon the
circumstances regarding the dissemination of the minority versus the
majority variant therein.  My further comments in response to various
transmissional matters taken as a whole still would supersede taking an
individual variant unit in isolation of the entire transmissional history
and then declaring that variant "typical" or "normative". 

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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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