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Ronald L. Minton wrote:
>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.
>
Ron:
I think you are correct that she is getting her info from someone else; I
talked to someone at SBL who had "debated" her and was shocked to find out
upon meeting her that her two masters degrees and college teaching
experience was in **Home Economics** and that for all intents and purposes,
she could not even read the Greek text he put in front of her. I, for one,
am sad to see that this nonsense is continuing; I thought that her book and
her personally had been so roundly debunked that she had thought better of
the situation and retired back to teaching Home Ec, rather than continuing
to embarass herself to such an extent...I guess not !!
XAIREIN...
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