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I received an unsolicited video tape of Gail Riplinger on the KJV.  I 
only mention it to this group because she mocks Bruce Metzger and 
fabricates about Westcott and Hort and she does other text-critical 
gymnastics.  In March 96 I published an 
unfavorable book review of her NEW AGE VERSIONS.  In the tape, the 
moderator calls for me to be fired from my teaching position.  The tape 
is full of grossly misleading claims.  I do want to ask two things of the 
list.  She claims that some ancient papyri, including P66 as I recall, 
often have two dots (diacritical marks) to tell the next copier to omit 
these words in his copy.  I hate to seem ignorant (unlearned) here, but I 
don't want to criticize her work on this point if it is true, and I was 
not aware of the practice if it ever existed.  Can someone explain what she 
means and if there is any truth to it.
She also claims that the papyri agree with the TR 75% and with W-H only 
15%.  I know this is wrong, but can someone tell me where she gets this 
kind of data?  There must be a pseudo-scholar out there somewhere who 
feeds this false data to her type; it is causing me some headaches.


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Prof. Ron Minton: rminton@mail.orion.org   W (417)268-6053  H 833-9581
Baptist Bible Graduate School 628 E. Kearney St. Springfield, MO 65803

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