Fri Jan 17 10:17:39 1997

From owner-tc-list  Fri Jan 17 10:17:39 1997
Return-Path: 
Received: by scholar.cc.emory.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
	id KAA10249; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 10:17:15 -0500
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 10:17:11 -0500 (EST)
From: "James R. Adair" 
To: tc-list@scholar.cc.emory.edu
Subject: Re: Original Text
In-Reply-To: 
Message-ID: 
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-tc-list@scholar.cc.emory.edu
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: tc-list@scholar.cc.emory.edu
content-length: 1001

On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Robert B. Waltz wrote: 

> Even if an author published multiple editions, should
> not the *final* one be considered the authoritative text and followed?

Of course, it depends on what is meant by "authoritative" here.  When
dealing with the New Testament, one's view of the authority of scripture
will certainly affect his or her text-critical goals.  However, if, as I
suspect, Bob is referring to the text which is officially promulgated by
the author, and so is _author_itative in that sense, if a second, 
substantially different, version is also circulated and copied, I would 
think that either would be valid targets of text-critical effort.  The 
relationship between the two "original" texts would be the provenance of 
the literary critic, not the text critic.

Jimmy Adair
Manager of Information Technology Services, Scholars Press
    and
Managing Editor of TELA, the Scholars Press World Wide Web Site
---------------> http://scholar.cc.emory.edu <-----------------

Back