From: perry.stepp@chrysalis.org
Date: Thu Oct 26 1995 - 17:47:22 EDT
 > Actually, due to the work of Colwell, Clark, Streeter, Royse, and 
 > Head, it
 > has been shown that due to various factors scribes were more likely 
 > to omit
 > than to add to the text.  
Well, actually that depends on the size of the omission.  When you're dealing
with a small unit of text, scribes were indeed more likely to skip part of a
line than to repeat something they'd just copied.  But when dealing with a
larger unit of text, scribes were more likely to interpolate than omit.
Grace and peace,
Perry L. Stepp, Baylor University
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