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Jim West wrote:
>Ken Litwak wrote:
> > [...etc...] 
> >So we can never do anything but count MSS.  As Larry pointd out 
> >quite adeqautely, there are no more copyist errors.  
> It is impossible for anyone who has ever graded a students paper to actually
> believe this nonsense.

Jim, I will try not to be unkind, but exactly this appeal to
"postmodernism" is a point Ken has returned to repeatedly. 

He's obviously free to do as he pleases in this regard.  However, it's
very difficult not to read his (repeated) postings on these topics as
anything other than an effort to perform an "end run" around those results
of Biblical scholarship which he apparently finds so unappealing. 

(For exmple, on a related topic, this is all certainly cut from the same
cloth as his attacks on evolutionary science.  I.e. once his "scientific"
arguments were shown to be without merit he retreated to the stock
"postmodern" refrain of "all knowledge is subjective, therefore we can't
_really_ know anything, therefore...")
	
In short, as Prof Ehrman pointed out earlier, caricatures of postmodern
criticism exist on both sides of the fence. 

N

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