Sunday, May 31, 2015

Text Criticism Examples

2 minute textual criticism class for church member: Y'know how the words "our" and "your" are similar? Y'know how the preacher might say "Today our efforts were successful" or "Today your efforts were successful"? Now imagine that your copying it, but remember that in Greek, they used all capitals and no spaces.
TODAYYOUR
TODAYOUR
The same equivalent pronouns in Greek are UMWN and YMWN, and we get that scribal confusion all the time in Greek.

THEFISHHECAUGHT vs THEFISHSHECAUGHT
GOD IS NOW HERE     GODISNOWHERE    GOD IS NOWHERE

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