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- Title: Test Passages of Profiles: A Comparison of Two Text-Critical Methods.
- Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 1996
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 251 KB
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Is it necessary to collate a NT Greek manuscript from beginning to end in order to give it a classification? Most textual critics today would agree that a full collation is not always required. (1) In this paper we examine two diverse approaches that have been used within the past twenty-five years for classifying Byzantine manuscripts without doing a full collation. One is the method developed by Kurt Aland (the use of test passages), (2) and the other is the method developed by Paul McReynolds and Frederik Wisse (the use of profiles). (3) The two methods have equally diverse objectives for dealing with the Byzantine manuscripts. Aland's method was designed primarily to identify the Byzantine manuscripts so they could be eliminated from further consideration, (4) whereas McReynolds and Wisse developed their method to classify manuscripts within the Byzantine tradition. (5) The question quite naturally arises, Which of the two methods best classifies a Byzantine manuscript without doing a full collation? It is the purpose of this article to demonstrate that when examining a previously unclassified manuscript only in selected places in order to determine whether or not it is a Byzantine manuscript, the use of profiles is superior to the use of test readings. In making this demonstration, it will be evident that the usefulness of the profile method in determining whether or not a manuscript is Byzantine is accomplished with even greater facility than the more specific and complex task of classifying Byzantine manuscripts into groups--the latter being the purpose, as noted, for which the method was designed. (6) We used 1 John as a basis for judging the two methods.