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At 04:03 AM 10/24/96 +0000, you wrote:


>And let's not speak about Arabic, Ethiopian, medieval Dutch, English,
>Catalan, Soghdian, Persian, medieval Hebrew, etc... Though I work directly
>on the versions (and maybe not enough on the Greek, as my master C. Amphoux
>told me), I like the edition of Merk, who gives more versional and
>diatessaric evidence. Also, for the latin side, it gives the vulgate text
>with old latin variants. Though my exemplar dates from 1944, I do not feel
>that it has been superseeded.


The simplest explanation as to why these minor translations have no
influence on TC is simply because they are minor.  They do not, in reality,
help us to reconstruct the Greek text of the NT or the Hebrew text of the OT
(unless someone is going to argue that the NT was originally written in KJ
english!).

The only use versions like these have is to compare with one another- being
translations of translations, etc., they do not take us any closer to the
Greek text.

When a version does seem to have an "older" reading it is, somewhere, based
on a Greek manuscript.

Thus it does not behhove us to waste years of study on "medieval dutch" and
its contribution to NT TC when we ought to spend our time with the greek mss.


Jim

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Jim West, ThD
Professor of Biblical Languages
Petros TN

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