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On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, holmic@mailhost.bethel.edu wrote, in part:

>        (I can almost hear the noise as the guns are being brought to bear
>on the suggestion that emendation has role to play in NT TC.  Please, before
>anyone starts blasting, please read the relevant parts of my essay, 347-349,
>first?)

Just a quick comment before I wander off....

I have no problem with the *idea* that the NT text may need conjectural
emendation. It stands to reason: Many of the extant documents derive
entirely from copies of the original. That is, the stemma is not

  autograph
      |
  ----------------
  |     |        |
Text   Text    Text
Type   Type    Type
 #1     #2      #3

but rather

  autograph
      |
first generation copy
      |
  ----------------
  |     |        |
Text   Text    Text
Type   Type    Type
 #1     #2      #3

This means that any errors which occur in the first generation
copy will be preserved forever unless corrected by scribes by
conjectural emendation.

The problem, to me, is not the idea that there are readings which
need emendation, but determining *which* readings they are. Given
that no one has agreed on that to this point, I don't see why
they should start now. :-)

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