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From: Maurice Robinson 
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On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Ronald L. Minton wrote:

> Maurice wrote a good explanation of things, but the HF text has the 
> advantage of coming last.  

How so? Or what do you mean?  The R/P text came out in 1991, whereas H/F
came out in 1982/1985.  However, whether first or last, the matter is not
based on time but on content and methodology, and the H/F and R/P
methodologies are themselves significantly different, even if they tend to
produce a similar resultant text.  I specifically mentioned in my
introduction the anomaly of H/F claiming their text to be "majority" when
in Revelation there are at least 30 places where they choose to follow
readings which have only 19%-30% support due to their stemmatic
principles, whereas the R/P text almost never abandons a reading with 70%
or more support on general principles of establishing a Byzantine
archetype (how "Byzantine" is a reading when it possesses less than 30%
support anyway?).  

> Thus, it is my text of choice for casual 
> reading and textual items.  One immediately knows what the others said.  
> No one supposes it is the best for detailed work.  However, it lists some 
> variants that are in neither UBS or NA.

This is true, since there are a number of Byz/majority readings which are
established from Von Soden which are considered insignificant by the UBS
or Nestle editors. H/F's apparatus is helpful in that regard, as well as
in knowing the differences from the current critical text.  The listing of
the MSS themselves and the "E" text in H/F is less than helpful,
and sometimes inaccurate, however.

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Maurice A. Robinson, Ph.D.           Professor of Greek and New Testament
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary     Wake Forest, North Carolina
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