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On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Robert B. Waltz wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, "Mark Arvid Johnson"  wrote:

[re: "The Text of the Church" by Aland and "The Text of the Church?" by
Pickering].
 
> Can you give a reference for this article? I'm a bit concerned about
> Aland's sources (given the weakness of the patristic citations in
> NA27) -- and more concerned with how Pickering interpreted them.

Don't have the reference at hand for Aland (some issue of Trinity Journal,
which, I don't know).  Pickering's article was distributed in photocopy
typescript by the Majority Text Society about 2 years ago or so.

> Also, how did Pickering or Aland decide what was *the* Egyptian
> text? His definition of text-types is not mine. 

Not sure this is a primary factor in the thrust of the articles either
way.  Pickering merely takes Aland's statistics and shows the same data
can readily point to diametrically opposite conclusions, so the question
of how a given text is defined is less pertinent than the matter of ways
to view the data.

> In reading this, I am not particularly impressed by the change in the
> rate of Egyptian and Byzantine readings. If accurate, what strikes *me*
> is the gradual elimination of "other" readings. What are these "other"
> readings? "Western"? Idiosyncratic? Other text-types?

Be aware that the same fathers and percentages differ dramatically in
Aland and Pickering's presentation of the same table, showing primarily
that the "trends" which seem to be visible may well be in a different
direction, depending on how the data is interpreted.


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Maurice A. Robinson, Ph.D.           Professor of Greek and New Testament
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary     Wake Forest, North Carolina
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