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From: "Dale M. Wheeler"
Subject: Re: professional scribes
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Andrew Kulikovsky wrote:
>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.
This statement raises a question for me, which I poses to the members of
the list:
I wonder if we can really say that "NT scribes...copied in scriptoriums"
and that they were "...paid scribes" and that certain Jewish scruples and
practices concerning the copying of the text did not become part of the NT
transmission method (by Jewish converts to Christianity). We can evidently
say these things of the early Alexandrian scribes, but since we possess no
early Byz mss, can we really demonstrate that what was occurring in the
Egyptian church was happening universally.
I don't know if we've ever had a discussion of this on list, but I'd be
very interested in hearing if any research has gone on/is going on related
to this issue.
XAIREIN...
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