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On 25 Jan 97 at 20:17, Ulrich Schmid wrote:
 
> In fact, I never "met" a scribe who, after testing his product over
> a span of lets say three or four pages, did not produce some results
> presumably not to the credit of the exemplar he reproduced
> (orthographicals, itacisms, slips, etc.). For what ever reason
> (regional dialects, lack of vigorous orthographical standards,
> etc.), apart from majour textual variant readings, no scribe seemed
> to have "reproduced exactly what he inherited in his exemplar".
> These are the facts as I'm familiar with them, still waiting for
> counter-examples from real scribes producing real MSS copies.

I think a counter-example might be provided by the traditional 
scribes who for the past thousand years and more have produced Torah 
scrolls for use in synagogues.


Lewis Reich
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