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In replying to Ulrich Schmid, Bart Ehrman writes in part:

>    I guess maybe one difference could be that scribes _are_ (how's that?)
> able to reproduce exactly what they inherit in their exemplars, whereas
> readers, I would maintain, can never reproduce exactly the meanings either
> of the author or of any other readers.

One tiny quibble (which I probably shouldn't allow myself in view of 
the cyber-space I've already taken up here, but, hey, it's Friday):  
Although I think it's an extremely rare happening, if at all, I'd 
want to leave open the theoretical possibility of a person 
understanding another rather well, perhaps even "exactly".  Indeed, 
one sometimes here's excited cries from a speaker or writer to a 
hearer or conversation partner or even a reader such as "*Exactly*!  
You've caught my point clearly! Wonderful!".  Whether, of course, 
this sort of cry actually reflects some truth depends upon the 
speaker or writer accurately enough understanding the hearer or 
reader!
Larry Hurtado
 
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