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From: habas@netvision.net.il (Dr. E. Habas)
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>On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, Bart Ehrman 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.

.......

Does your experience include professional Torah-writers (=SOFREI STM)?

Thank you,

E. Habas

Dept of History
Ben Gurion University
Be'er Sheva, Israel

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