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At 04:54 PM 10/23/96 +0000, you wrote:
> Thelogical education is not
>adequate for a discipline like textual criticism as it is a _literary_
>discipline. 
>

And yet many of the best text critics are the product of a "theological"
education.  If, however, you mean that text criticism does not receive
adequate attention in theological seminaries I would have to agree with you.
But I think you have painted with a rather broad brush here.  Maurice
Robinson is an excellent text critic, whether one agrees or not with his
conclusions.

>I notice that what I write might sound harsh to some of you - 

Not really harsh- just too broad and general to be true. "Erore latent in
generalibus" (sorry if this is wrong- my latin is for reading).


>
>Jean Valentin - 58/7 rue Van Kalck - 1080 Bruxelles - Belgique

>What's too simple is wrong, what's too complicated is unusable.

Rightly said!



Jim

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Jim West, ThD
Professor of Biblical Languages
Petros TN

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