Baker withdraws Comfort book

Kevin W. Woodruff cierpke at prodigy.net
Tue Sep 21 11:53:09 EDT 1999


Randy:

Philip Comfort's book on THE COMPLETE TEXT OF THE EARLIEST NEW TESTAMENT
MANUSCRIPTS just recently was released. It has been criticized for its
inaccuracy although one of the B-Greek members vehemently defends it. It has
been criticized by both Critical Text advocates and Majority Text advocates.
If you access the archives you should be able to pull up the thread under
"Comfort." In my opinion, the book has way too many documented errors for it
to be released. In talking with the Baker representive, they have had a
difficult time working with Comfort and will be reluctant to publish
anything else by him.

Kevin



At 08:35 AM 9/21/99 -0400, you 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"?
>
>Thanks much.
>
>Randy Leedy
>
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