[B-Greek] historical present in Luke

Mark Goodacre goodacre at gmail.com
Sun Oct 9 18:38:47 EDT 2005


Thanks, Randall.

On 10/9/05, bitan buth <ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il> wrote:

> Thank you for adding Luke 24:12. Yes, I accept "p75 and everyone"
> against the Wescott-Hort 'non-interpoloation.'

Good to hear;  I agree that the case for reading the verse is strong. 
Cf. my Doktorvater John Muddiman's "Note on Reading Luke 24.12" in ETL
48 (1972): 542-8.

> Your scepticism on missing features is both useful and expected.
> (After all, there is not one Matthean 'narrative tote' in Luke.)
> I would expect that authors will rewrite features that may remove 60-95%
> of a source's examples.
> But you will permit me scepticism on claims that an author would remove
> 99-100% of a feature WHEN he does, in fact, use it on his own more than
> once or twice.

I think it depends on how one configures the process of working from a
source.  If the assumption is that an author will default to retaining
everything from his source unless he has a very strong reason not to,
of course all absences need to be accounted for.  But I am not sure
that every absence should be thought of as a conscious act of
"removal" as if one is talking about active deletion.  Luke was not
overwriting an electronic base text of Mark in which all
non-agreements constitute conscious deletions of that source.

With best wishes
Mark
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