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Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 13:08:45 -0700
To: "Ronald L. Minton" 
From: "Robert B. Waltz" 
Subject: Re: spread sheet of variants
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On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, "Ronald L. Minton"  wrote:

>My students have helped me make a table (one 500 page chart) of all the 
>variants listed in HF1&2, UBS3&4, NA26&27.  I will let you know as soon 
>as we have it transfered on to a spread sheet (Spring 1997 Semester).  
>Right now the approximately 12,000 variants are not as valuable because 
>we have to do manual calculations.  Still, we can get some data.  For 
>instance the TR agrees with both Aleph and B some 300 times (3.1%) 
>AGAINST the Majority Text.  Ours is a statistical table that has take 
>nine years to complete (97% done).

Have you considered transferring this to a data analysis program --
or, failing that, a programmable database? It means you would have
to do a bit of simple programming to do your data modelling -- but
you would also be able to create much more involved (and, IMHO,
useful) statistics.

I tried to set up a similar project in a spreadsheet about five
years ago. It just wasn't possible to produce the statistics I
wanted (e.g. for near-singular readings). The database gave much
more flexibility. It was also easier to read....

I would hope you would keep us posted on this project, though. It
sounds like a useful undertaking.

It shouldn't really come as a surprise to see the TR occasionally agreeing
with B and Aleph against the majority text. After all, in addition to its
Byzantine componets, the TR includes readings from 1 (with a large
non-Byzantine component in the gospels) and the vulgate (significantly
non-Byzantine throughout).

In any case, the real question is, "Where the TR disagrees with the
Majority Text, what does it *most often* agree with?" Also, "What
does the TR agree with most often?"

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