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On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, Dale M. Wheeler wrote:

> I've not read Pickering's article, but when I read Aland's I think I had
> the same question which lies behind Pickering's reordering of the 
> statistics; a quick recalculation of the statistics showed a completely
> different picture than the one being painted by Aland; namely, if anything
> can be said about the early Fathers' quotations, its that they used a 
> Byz Vorlage as often as an "Alex" one (whatever that might have been).

This was precisely Pickering's point in his article, which simply viewed
the identical statistical data from within a pro-Byzantine perspective.

> But that raised for me two additional questions. One was that Aland was
> claiming that there was a high agreement with the Alex text, but I think
> what he meant was ANY READING FOUND IN ANY ALEX TEXT that wasn't found
> in Byz mss. I could be wrong here, but I don't recall him making any 
> claification on the issue and that the presentation seemed to indicate 
> that the reading only had to be found in Alex mss to be called Alex. 
> It seems to me that was not very sound methodology.

This the readers of the list should determine for themselves by reading
Aland's original article.

> I'd be interested to know what you all think about the supposed uniformity
> of the text across all geographical boundaries at various stages of the
> church.

I certainly would not concur with such a hypothesis, but would suggest an
overarching original Textform which heavily influenced and
semi-"controlled" the text in all areas at all times, but which did not
preclude localized variant texttypes and subtypes.


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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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