James - Some Challenges to Byzantine Priority
One of the problems – perhaps the worst problem -- with the premises of the Byzantine Priority approach is that they render internal evidence superfluous wherever a particular variant is favored...
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WR: "perhaps the worst problem -- with the premises of the Byzantine Priority approach is that they render internal evidence superfluous wherever a particular variant is favored by a large majority...
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Euthymius,No; Westcott and Hort did not do exactly the same thing. Many of the arguments in Hort's Notes focus on internal evidence.E: "And why is the Peshitta such a big deal? It is well known that...
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WR: "No; Westcott and Hort did not do exactly the same thing. Many of the arguments in Hort's Notes focus on internal evidence."Mostly on external, but that by the way. They did deal with "Intrinsic...
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WR: "As long as an 80% majority of Greek MSS is given 51% of the vote, what’s the point of discussing the internal evidence?" I think the majority text people would say that whenever ...Read More
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WR: "So, in terms of witnesses that were produced before the 700’s, or which can be reasonably posited to exist before the 700’s, wouldn’t you say that is a majority, or something close to it?Read More
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Hi Waterrock, The main point in James 3:12b is to reiterate what mustn't be: two things coming from a single source (blessing and cursing). It's a Semitic usage to repeat things over and over again,...
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BTW, this kind of editorial abridgment is frequent enough to spot. I see a good parallel in Matt 5:43-44. "You have heard it said .... [two things] . . . But I say unto you [let us also make this two...
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WR: "Do you have anything to say about the very secondary-looking-ness of the Byzantine reading here, and the very non-secondary-looking-ness of its Alexandrian rival?"Actually, I don't, because I...
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