Baker withdraws Comfort book

Stephen C. Carlson scarlson at mindspring.com
Tue Sep 21 09:11:07 EDT 1999


At 08:35 AM 9/21/99 -0400, Randy Leedy wrote:
>Can someone supply a **BRIEF SYNOPSIS** of this situation for those of
>us who are out of this particular loop? What sort of errors does the
>book contain? What is there about its content that makes it so
>offensive to some? Does the opposition come from across the spectrum
>of textual positions or from one particular "camp"?

Although the book is intended to present a transcription of the earlist
manuscripts, it became evident that there a number of typographical and
other errors in the transcriptions, some of which were due to the editors
of the editiones principes, some of which were new.  A major flaw with
the book (probably not to blamed on Comfort & Barrett but a major flaw
nonetheless) is that uncertain characters are not marked at all due to
"publishing constraints."  (A common convention is to use underdots.)

Stephen Carlson
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