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From: "Dale M. Wheeler"
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Lewis Reich wrote:
>On 12 Feb 97 at 10:31, James R. Adair wrote:
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>> On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Lewis Reich wrote:
>
>> > 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?
>
>> One question that Tov's analysis of the Qumran material raises is, When
>> did the meticulous attention to detail that characterized the Masoretes'
>> work with the text begin? Since there are so many different forms of the
>> Hebrew text present at Qumran, I think we can at least say that extreme
>> attention to detail did not characterize the transmission of the entirety
>> of the Hebrew ms tradition during or slightly before the first century
>> C.E.
>
>I'm not convinced that a variety of forms necessarily means that
>transmission was inaccurate at that time. It could mean that
>different versions had been accurately transmitted, could it not?
I've wondered the same thing; let me ask the list in a different
way...should we assume that the textual situation at Qumran represents the
textual situation universally for the Hebrew text and its transmission?
You know, that sort of sounds like the same question I asked about whether
we should assume that the state of the text in Egypt represents the state
of the text everywhere for the NT ?! I'd like to second Larry Hurtado's
suggestion that some of the experts on this list read and then interact
onlist with Gamble's book...we could certainly add Tov's book to that
discussion as well.
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