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Dr. Habas,

   The words you've attributed to me were written _to_ me (not by me).  I
personally think it is possible for scribes to reproduce their examplars
exactly.

-- Bart D. Ehrman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, Dr. E. Habas wrote:

> 
> >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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