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On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, Ulrich Schmid wrote:

> Besides, the statistics brought forth by Mark Arvid Johnson (Thu, 7 Oct 1996) 
> are not reliable as far as Aland's statistics are concerned. Either Pickering or 
> Johnson have either misrepresented Aland's statistics or rely on different data. 
> Without consulting Pickering's article reviewing Aland's article we should not 
> continue to extrapolate from the statistics in Johnson's post.

Pickering's point in his article was to show how the same data could be
used to demonstrate the opposite point by looking at the data from a
different angle. Aland's original statistical data need to be posted in
direct comparison with Pickering's reworking of them, but as Ulrich has
said, without the full text of Pickering's article before you in
comparison with Aland's original article, the data are probably
meaningless.

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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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