Book Evaluation Requested
Carlton Winbery
winberyc at speedgate.net
Fri Apr 7 22:58:11 EDT 2000
Edward Hobbs wrote;
>
>These Swanson volumes are a gold-mine. It's possible at some times and
>some places, to get a package price on several of them, saving lots
>of money.
>
>
I want to second what Edward has said. Swanson did an amazing amount of
work in a very short time. He did make a few mistakes, but his accuracy is
very good in light of the number of mss he has collated. One place where I
think he did not recognize what the scribes were doing is in Mark 2 and
John 5 where there are several occurances of the word KRABATTON spelled
with two T's. The scribe in several minuscules made the two T's look like a
TG (perhaps better protrayed as TY. I did not recall Metzger's presentation
of this as a double T but knew that in Greek you would never get a TG
coming together. I finally found in minuscule 1346 an interim way of making
the double T that was unmistakeable. It proves that Metzger is surely
right. Swanson always presents them as TG which cannot possible be what the
scribes intended. I found one scribe was also taken in by this for he wrote
the first T at the end of the line and put the G (looks like Y) as the
first letter of the next line! I think that one was min. 1877. I do not
have my notes at home.
By the way there is a picture of Swanson at his web page. His office looks
as cluttered as mine.
Dr. Carlton L. Winbery
Foggleman Professor of Religion
Louisiana College
winbery at speedgate.net
winbery at andria.lacollege.edu
Ph. 1 318 448 6103 hm
Ph. 1 318 487 7241 off
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