Baker withdraws Comfort book
Jim West
jwest at highland.net
Tue Sep 21 10:45:21 EDT 1999
At 09:11 AM 9/21/99 -0400, you wrote:
>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,
Just as there are errors in the IGNTP volume of John, for instance. Yet not
a single soul has complained about IGNTP to the extent that they have about
Comfort's book. Just as it would be wrong to discontinue publication of the
John volume of IGNTP (or any other book that contained errors)- so is it
wrong to discontinue the Comfort book.
> 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.)
Which could of course be rectified in a second corrected edition. We still
have no real explanation as to why the book has been pulled, while others,
equally faulty, have not.
Best,
Jim
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