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Dr. E. Habas wrote:
>
> Dr. Schmid's revised statement as to scribes' practices is very
> interesting. If indeed "...no scribe reproducing Greek
> NT MSS..." has managed to produce a perfect (or close to it) manuscript
> (and yet the chronological boundaries of this are not clear to me), than
> either there is a marked difference in the professional level between these
> scribes and those copying Hebrew OT texts for use in Jewish communities,
> which would seem odd, or one could suggest a marked difference in the
> *attitude* of the former and the latter scribes to the texts that they were
> copying. Could that be the case? I wonder... Maybe a different solution has
> escaped me - I don't know enough about Greek NT scribes.
>
> Effie Habas
>
> > 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.)
>
> Again, you gave no details, but normally any OT text which is not perfect
> (namely, contains a mistake) would be put aside and never used, though such
> texts would not be thrown away in the usual manner (luckily for anyone
> using material from the Cairo Geniza). So we *do* have many examples of
> imperfect texts, but we know they were not used.
>
> sincerely,
>
> Effie Habas
I believe there were a lot of differences between NT scribes and OT
scribes.
Initially they were copied in scriptoriums by paid scribes and many
manuscripts
were most probably copied in a hurry to get them circulating.
Anyway I suggest Metzger's book, "The Text of the NT" which has a
chapter on such
considerations.
cheers,
Andrew
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