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On 11 Feb 97 at 12:58, Professor L.W. Hurtado wrote:

> On the question of NT vs. Jewish scribal practices, it is just a bit 
> anachronistic to compare Massoretic scribal discipline with what 
> might have been going on in the first two centuries CE.  Here E. 
> Tov's work (e.g., _Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible_) is useful, 
> in drawing upon early evidence (esp. Qumran) about the relatively 
> greater fluidity/variety of the text of the OT in this early period.

Isn't the question of the variety of versions of the the text at that 
point a different question from whether the different versions were 
being accurately reproduced and transmitted?


Lewis Reich
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