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From: schmiul@uni-muenster.de (Ulrich Schmid)
Subject: Re: Post-modern textual criticism
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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

The broad statement is mine. I should have said "...no scribe reproducing Greek 
NT MSS...". 

Dr. Habas, the answer to your question is no. (* In fact, I had a closer look at 
one scroll of Genesis, but experts confirmed that this piece of writing from the 
13th century doesn't meet professional standards.)

Ulrich Schmid, Muenster

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