T.C. question/Occupational confession

Ed Gorham egorham at ackerley.com
Mon Aug 10 09:01:26 EDT 1998


I'm kind of new to the study of textual criticism, and had a question about 
corrector manuscripts.
According to Aland's classification of texts into categories (from Text Of 
The NT), the D ms. of the Pauline letters is a 6th century, "category 3" 
type of text (valuable, but very "western").  Does this mean that you can 
classify a corrector (say, D1) the same way?  Even if the date is 
different, would be still be a catgory 3 (i.e. has so much been "corrected" 
that it is more properly in another category altogether?)?   Just curious, 
and I'd appreciate the help.
We seem to be getting confessional re: our "day jobs".  I am NOT an 
engineer.  My dad, at one time, was a chemist.  Is this why I am studying 
Greek, even though I failed HS chemistry and have no interest in 
engineering of any kind?  I am a lowly broadcast media salesperson...any 
more out there like me?



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