[B-Greek] Re: Remark on textual critics
Clwinbery at aol.com
Clwinbery at aol.com
Thu Mar 20 23:24:44 EST 2003
In a message dated 3/20/03 11:28:52 AM, willker at chemie.uni-bremen.de writes:
>Iver Larsen wrote:
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>> The problem, as I see it, is more that the various textual principles
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>> are not balanced properly by internal evidence
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>But the "lectio difficilior" IS an internal criterion.
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>> they want to make sense out of a Greek reading that does not make
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>> good sense and can hardly be original.
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>If it makes "good sense" or not has nothing to do with what is original
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>or not. "good sense" is a very weak textcritical criterion.
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>> In many cases, the better reading is found among the alternatives
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>> given in the apparatus.
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>Here "better" does not mean "original", but only "smoother". This
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>thinking in the end resulted in the Byzantine text. :-)
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This string has gone completely off track. As a textual critic myself, I
agree with the rejoinder that Carl made to the original post in this area.
But, now we must move back to what is appropriate to B-Greek. So let us close
this string altogether.
Thanks,
Carlton Winbery
co-moderator
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