From: Jim West <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 17:06:00 -0400 (EDT)

Thanks to Jenee Woodard who pointed me to this book which others also might
find interesting regarding modern TC and its presuppositions:

(Jenee tells me that though not primarily interested in biblical tc- the
book covers it as well).

A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism by Jerome J. McGann
Table of Contents
Foreword 
     By D. C. Greetham
Preface, 1992 
Acknowledgments 
Introduction 
1. Modern Textual Criticism: A Schematic History 
2. Modern Textual Criticism: The Central Problems 
3. The Ideology of Final Intentions 
4. A Modern Instance: Editing Byron 
5. Final Intentions and Textual Versions 
6. Final Authorial Intentions: Exceptions and Misconceptions 
7. The Problem of Literary Authority 
8. Modernized Editions and the Theory of Textual Criticism 
9. Summary 
10. Conclusion 
Appendix: A Possible Objection 
Notes 
Index 

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Jim West

Adjunct Professor of Bible,
Quartz Hill School of Theology

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