New Testament Textual Analysis 14 - Testing the Tests

Important modifications to some of the canons (guidelines) used to make decisions about textual contests

2:00 - Eldon Epp's "Interlude" Essays
4:00 - It is not justifiable to focus on Egypt and ignore the rest of Christendom
4:45 - The anti-Byzantine bias driving the Nestle-Aland/UBS compilations
7:20 - Mark 1:2 - prefer the less specific reading (Snapp's Canon)
9:00 - Royse's critique of "prefer the shorter reading"
11:50 - Michael Holmes
12:45 - 12 textual contests in the Gospels
23:30 - Parablepsis - accidental loss - explains for many shorter readings
24:00 - Academic bias has resulted in arbutrary preference for shorter readings
25:30 - Heinlein's Canon
26:00 - "Reasoned eclectic" compilations are not very eclectic; they are 99% Alexandrian
27:00 - Equitable eclecticism: a better approach
27:45 - Variants involving nomina sacra are especially useful text-type trackers
29:30 - As a compilation is made, a history is implied
30:00 - Maurice Robinson

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