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On Sun, 9 Jun 1996, Ulrich Schmid wrote:

> Since we somehow agree that we are not doing our job in a vacuum, it may 
> be worthwhile looking at other highly frequent copied textual transmissions. 
> I would suggest at least two: The Latin Vulgate and the Platonic dialogues.

I would like to add to this the Homeric works, since they have the 
greatest number of extant MSS within the classical tradition, and as 
poetry were probably more memorized than the Platonic dialogues, which 
would then parallel certain memorized familiarity with Scripture in 
either Greek or Latin.

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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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