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On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, Robert B. Waltz wrote:

> It was Colwell who pointed out that a text-type is a collection of
> *manuscripts*, not a collection of readings. We can only call a
> reading "Alexandrian" if it is the clear reading of those manuscripts
> and only of those manuscripts!

I differ on this point.  As I have previously noted a texttype is a
_pattern_ of readings which, when linked together and viewed as a whole,
is fairly clear and definable.  MSS which are part of a specific texttype
share readings from that pattern in a significant percentage amount. But
_some_ readings within that pattern may also be present in other MSS not
of that texttype, just as some MSS within that texttype may have a lower
percentage of agreement with the pattern than others.  MSS do not make
texttypes -- patterns of readings define texttypes, and MSS fit into such
patterns in various ways.


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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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