(Roe)Book Evaluation Requested

Stephen C. Carlson scarlson at mindspring.com
Sun Apr 9 20:51:56 EDT 2000


At 05:39 AM 4/9/00 -0400, yochanan bitan wrote:
>>Waltz, at 
>>http://www.skypoint.com/~waltzmn/CriticalEds.html#Swanson
>>
>>says that the text used is not "B", but United Bible Societies'.  The
>>Codex Vaticanus might consistently be shown in the first line of the
>>apparatus, but other than that possible "prominence", it is given no
>>special attention.
>
>That information about UBS is misleading. Vaticanus is the base-text, but
>others are spelled out so that everyone gets their day in court.

The confusion here is that, although the discussion here on B-Greek
is over the Swanson's New Testament Greek Manuscripts series, the
review by Bob Waltz, however, is directed to Swanson's earlier work:
The Horizontal Line Synopsis of the Gospels, Greek Edition.

>And Swanson is truly excellent. No better, more user-friendly reference for
>a practical look at a text.

I agree.

Stephen Carlson
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