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On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, L. Mark Bruffey wrote:

> I am reading a collection of essays by E.C. Colwell.  In many ways he
> seems to have been a maverick; 

Colwell definitely was a maverick, usually correct in his views, and in
very good company with Kenneth W. Clark and Eldon J. Epp.  My own views
and positions owe a great deal to Colwell, Clark, and Epp.

> I would also like your ideas as to what factors may
> have influenced his thinking.

Speaking from what I know, Colwell and Clark worked together for many
years, first as students at the University of Chicago, then separately
with Colwell remaining at Chicago and Clark moving to Duke.  Both were
very much evidentialists, and preferred to theorize solely upon the extant
evidence.  Neither one of them had much use for a purely eclectic approach
to NT textual criticism, believing that it led to no useful results, and
in fact tended merely to maintain the Westcott-Hort type of text by
default.

Calvin Porter (who worked under Clark) has been on this list previously;
if he is watching, perhaps he can shed some more light on what I have
stated.

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Maurice A. Robinson, Ph.D.           Professor of Greek and New Testament
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary     Wake Forest, North Carolina
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