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On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Robert B. Waltz wrote:

> I have to agree with Maurice on this. While I concede that scholars
> such as Zuntz and Metzger had textual theories (Metzger's being a
> slightly modernized version of Westcott & Hort) ....

Metzger chooses to retain the "Lucianic Recension" and "Byzantine
conflation" concept from Hort while abandoning virtually everything else
in Hort's transmissional theory except the deprecation of the Byzantine 
Text.  In the end, Metzger remains a variant-by-variant eclectic with no 
integrated theory of transmission.


> >I still maintain, therefore, and unapologetically, that "modern eclecticism
> >still proceeds as if it has no theory of textual transmission ... "
> >I suggest you ask Epp and see whether he does not agree with me on this
> >point.
> 
> I'm not sure that Epp would go that far -- but his recent collection of
> essays suggests that he is *still* frustrated at the lack of progress in
> this area.

I definitely would be interested in knowing precisely what Epp thinks on 
this point.  All I know is what he has written in numerous articles, and 
the thrust seems to be in the direction I stated (and he told me what 
seemed like much the same over lunch in Cleveland some years ago).

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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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