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On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Ulrich Schmid wrote:

> Again, I may have stated the point more clearly. Assimilation in the Gospels is 
> very frequent. This is not text-type specific, but seemingly to be found in 
> virtually every MS. Therefore, assimilation may somehow affect clear patterns 
> and obcure them to some extend. I only thought of the smaller patterns within 
> the Byz. text-type, indicating Byz. sub-divisions. The point was: Assimilation 
> _might_ have obscured to some extend the clear genealogical relations between 
> MSS of the same text-type.

Probably some close analysis of the readings in the Mk.11 collation by
Lake et al. needs to be made to see whether any of the shared readings are
in fact likely assimilations, either to parallel passages or to the near
context, and then to see whether any clear pattern of association results 
among the MSS of these groups.  I myself suspect little or no connections 
in this regard, since this collation data caused Lake et al. to consider 
the MSS actually genealogically unrelated.
 
> Well, the readings of these smaller patterns (i.e. "broadly disseminated and 
> very well known pool of variant-readings") are regularly found in around 10 to 
> 40 percent of the MSS Lake-Blake-New examined. These MSS stem from three 
> "widely-separated monasteries" and therefore, by consequence, if an argument is 
> built on the widely-separated monasteries, the smaller patterns are at least 
> spread exactly in the same "widely-separated" areas (i.e from Mount Sinai to 
> Jerusalem and Patmos). 

It might be instructive to see whether any of the patterns are 
monastery-specific, i.e., limited almost exclusively to MSS from within a 
single monastery (which would imply some limitation and restriction upon 
the copying procedure).  If on the other hand, the sub-type readings were 
spread nearly equally among the MSS of all three monasteries, then this 
would imply approximately a same percentage of parallel spread throughout 
the empire of these sub-groups (which well may be the case, even if the 
sub-groups originally began as local-text variants; the significant point 
is that these sub-group readings never gained the ascendancy, but always 
remained in a minority of MSS, even within the Byzantine tradition).

> I must admit that I do not completely grasp what "'floating' localized variants" 
> means. Do they originally belong to some sort of localized Byzantine sub-types 
> the local text-type like, or...? 

I suspect originating within a localized tradition, but with a certain 
degree of transmission beyond the local area for some, if not all, of the 
local variants.  

> I may add that there are 22 of these 
> "'floating' localized variants" within the 33 verses of Mark 11. Even if they 
> are only "sporadically adopted", they can be found in MSS from "widely-separated 
> monasteries". 

Perhaps.  This again needs to be checked against the locale of each MS in
Lake's collation to see whether the localized variants in fact do
transcend the single monastery within which they are kept.  This is a
relatively simple task, which could be accomplishing by obtaining the data
from the Kurzgefasste Liste, and then color-coding each MS in the
collation with a different highlighting pen.  Until then, it is unwise to
speculate. 

> "Disturbing" signals to whom?

My guess is to the eclectic school.

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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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