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From: Vincent Broman
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BillCombs@aol.com asked:
> ... Are the collations we have in the apparatus of UBS4 and NA27 not to
> be trusted?
NA27 et al are trustworthy enough as far as they go, but they are tightly
constrained by space, by editor's theories, etc, to give one narrow viewport
out onto the mass of data available. Compare NA27/IGNPT/Swanson on a verse or
two in Luke and you quickly find out how much selection and simplification has
to be done to produce a "hand edition" of the NT. It's a lot.
I'm happy to use acccurate transcriptions and collations instead of
manuscript images, as long as the transcription is reporting on the aspects
of the text of interest to me. You'd need a very detailed transcription
to learn much about mis-spellings, nomina sacra, and the like. From NA27
you could only gain a rough impression of how closely different witnesses
are related to each other and no clear idea at all of how reliable any
one witness (even a "constant" witness) is in terms of faithful copying.
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