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On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, William Petersen wrote:

> while
> I can numerically determine that "this" (and not "that") text was "the text
> that lies behind the *dominant* textual tradition" (to quote Jimmy Adair),
> we all know that the *dominant* text may be a bad, corrupt text (Byzantiners
> would say this of the Alexandrian text in the fourth and fifth century;
> Westcott-Horters would say this of the Byzantine text in the twelfth cent.).

Just a minor correction (since I am otherwise staying out of the debate
over trying to define "original text"): 

Those who would favor Byzantine-priority would _not_ claim that "the
Alexandrian text in the fourth and fifth centuries" was "dominant", save
only in a localized sense. The status of dominancy (were evidence
available and preserved from the _entire_ Greek-speaking region of the
Empire in the fourth and fifth centuries) would still be claimed by us to
be the basic Byzantine Textform -- not only in that era but also in the
earlier periods as well as those which followed. 

I know that Dr. Petersen will sharply differ from this perspective and
speak once more about _ex silentio_ arguements, etc. as previously, but it
nevertheless _is_ proper to state the position of an opposing side in a
form which the advocates of that opposing side would accept; hence the
clarification. 

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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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