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Re bibliography for those wishing to make their own assessment of Colwell:
the place to begin may be Colwell's 1968 essay, "Hort Redivivus: A Plea and
a Program," pp. 63-83 in his volume of collected essays (_Studies in
Methodology in Textual Criticism of the New Testament_ [NTTS 9; Leiden and
Grand Rapids: Brill and Eerdmans, 1969]). In this essay he *retracts* some
of his earlier criticism of Hort--thus one might start here rather than the
earlier essays.  Also, an essay not in his collected essays that will
interest some on this list is "External Evidence and New Testament
Criticism," in _Studies in the History and Text of the NT_, ed. Daniels and
Suggs (SD 29; U. of Utah press, 1967) 1-12.

For a sympathetic critical assessment of Colwell--as well as Aland and
Zuntz--see J. N. Birdsall's essay on "The Recent History of New Testament
Textual Criticism (from Westcott and Hort, 1881, to the present)," in ANRW
2.26.1, pp. 99-197, esp. pp. 166-175 for the three scholars just mentioned.
Birdsall treats them as "Colwell - a practical scholar theorizing," "Zuntz -
classical philology and New Testament text," and "Aland - entrepreneurial
pragmatism."

(full bibliographic details, if needed, may be found in the bibliography to
my essay--which offers its own assessment of Colwell [I suggest that his
method is patterned after Hort, while his views of the history of the text
are influenced by Zuntz and Schmidt]--in the vol. Ehrman and I edited, The
Text of the New Testament in Comtemporary Research.)

Mike Holmes

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