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On Mon, 27 Jan 1997, "Stephen C. Carlson" 
wrote:

>But doesn't textual criticism shed some light, however dim, on the
>literary question?  What is the value of the evidence of P46, Tatian,
>Basilides, and Marcion?

Of course TC sheds light on other disciplines -- but those discussions
should be held on other lists, making references to our results.

And I know that there are times where literary criteria will be applied
to textual criticism. (I try to avoid that, but others don't share
my textual theories.)

But that's not my point. What I'm getting at is that we should not
let other forms of criticism dominate the list. Even those of us
who agree very closely on textual matters may have very diverse
opinions on other matters. If we let the other matters dominate
the list, then we'll never get our basic work done.

If we have to discuss literary matters, we should confine the
discussion to the textual point at hand. Surely this is obvious;
we don't *really* want to re-fight the question of whether Paul
wrote the Pastorals, or how many people added to Isaiah, or
how the books of Ezra and Nehemiah came to exchange chapters.

At least, *I* don't want to fight over it....

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