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On Sun, 09 Feb 97, schmiul@uni-muenster.de (Ulrich Schmid) wrote, in part:

>It might be interesting to discuss the meaning of the term "to produce a perfect 
>(or close to it) manuscript". If we rerfer to the standards put forth by the 
>masoretics, most likely no scribe reproducing Greek NT MSS can compete. Maybe 
>"professional levels" were different, maybe "a marked difference in the 
>*attitude*" is detectable. However, I suspect most of the differences are due to 
>features transcendending the attitudes or professional levels of individuals 
>(scribes).

I think this is a good question. What is a "perfect" copy? One which exactly
reproduces its exemplar, or one which exactly reproduces the original text?
Or, perhaps, one which perfectly reproduces an intermediate copy (for example,
the ancestor of family 1).

Unless we are prepared to give an answer to that question, we cannot very
well say what we expect of scribes!

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