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Ronald L. Minton wrote:
> [...]  DR. Riplinger uses it to prove the
>M.T. and KJV are supernatural   :)

This, of course, is one on main issues surrounding these claims; it is
certainly the the thrust of the BR article.

But since this is being discussed on a list devoted to Textual Criticism
perhaps we should focus on aspects of this controversy at least related to
that topic.

For example:  Let us assume for the sake of argument that such sequences of
letters really exist and all that Dr Riplinger and the author of the BR
article claim them to be.  In that case, what are we to make of those
unfortunate souls who happened to have lived during those centuries before
the MT took its final --and presumably divinely authorized-- form?

To name one such group: the members of the early Christian church and, in
particular the writers of the NT.  Setting aside the fact that they
primarily used the LXX, are we not then forced to accept that these writers
didn't even have _access_ to an authentic, inspired text of the Hebrew
Scriptures?

Nichael                                                      __
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