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On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Jack Kilmon wrote:

> 	There seems to be a great parallel between textual criticism
> and palaeoanthropology.  We are examining small fossil fragments and
> speculating on a common ancestor...looking for the "Lucy" of
> manuscripts.  Everytime a new fossil is discovered, we re-examine
> the family (hominidae/Byzantine/Alexandrian) and it's genera, species
> and sub-species as well as "tribes and clans."  Textual variants are
> like genetic codes.

I see a parallel, too, between the search for a mitochondrial Eve and the 
search for the elusive archetypes of the gospels (and other books as 
well).  I have thought for some time about the possibility of using some 
of the algorithms used to trace the human genome to examine biblical 
mss.  Of course, I realize that the validity of some of those algorithms 
is disputed.  Still, it would be interesting to see what they would 
generate in terms of an archetype.

> 	I wonder if the 11Q New Jerusalem fragments just might
> represent a holotype for Revelation.

Could you elaborate some more?

Jimmy Adair
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