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On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Jack Kilmon 

>Robert B. Waltz wrote:

>> Since people are still asking about the Encyclopedia of NT TC, I've
>> decided to start posting some potential articles. I've now completed
>> rough drafts of three of them, on "Canons of Criticism," "Oral
>> Transmission," and "Text-Types."
>>
>> You can find them at
>>
>> http://www.skypoint.com/~waltzmn
>>
>
>
>	Having downloaded and printed out these excellent articles, I
>consider them a wonderful "gift" to the readership of TC.  To those "lay
>scholars," like myself, they represent the beginnings of what will be
>an extremely informative "mini-course" in textual criticism.  In a clear
>and succinct way, they distill the often cumbersone scholarly discourse
>in TC in a well written and easily manageable format.

Be still my swelled head! :-)

I should remind people that I am, at least officially, a textual layman
myself. Yes, I've spent hours at least equivalent to a Master's degree --
but I haven't had a professor to crack the whip over me and force all
originality out of my work. :-) As for "well-written," remember that
I work as a magazine editor; I'd better have *some* skills at English.

On a more serious note, I would point out that these articles were
written with hypertext in mind; there are cross-references that
simply won't work on the printed page. If you want to store them on
your computer, just save the HTML files in your browser, then
re-open them at your leisure.

Also, a note on footnotes: I create both "informative" and "bibliographic"
footnotes. Following a lead I've seen in some history texts, I put
an asterisk in front of informative footnotes. So a footnote [*10]
means that footnote 10 contains useful information; a footnote [11]
would just be a citation.

I hope this helps....

Bob Waltz
waltzmn@skypoint.com

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