06-20-2013, 10:34 PM
Just keeping things in mind, for the Greek manuscript tradition one manuscript will not have the same mistakes as the next one. IN the Greek tradition there are thousands of Greek manuscripts that have been copied. There are over 5,200 Greek New Testament manuscripts - TOTAL. But this is not to mention the Latin manuscripts. Plus you have the Coptic manuscripts and also the Syriac manuscripts. But take a particular scribe, for instance. When copying from his exempler to his own manuscript he is going to make some mistakes. This will be noted and we can see this happens. But the next scribe who (let us say) has the same exempler of the previous scribe; he is not going to make the same mistakes. A third scribe comes along using the same exempler as the original scribe and, when copying, he also will not make the same mistakes. So we can bring all these together and come up pretty accurately with what the original text/exempler read.
In addition you/we still have to deal with the different vorlages or variences of the Old Testament text. Say Aramaic Primacy is true and Aramaic was the original language for ALL 27/22 books of the New Testament. We / you still have to deal with the differences, varients of the Old Testament whether Aramaic or Greek be the original of the New Testament. For, sometimes the writer(s) of the New Testament (say Paul or Peter, but for the most part, Paul) seemed to use TWO different textual families in his quotations of the Old Testament. He would either quote from the Hebrew LXX (the Hebrew underneath the Greek LXX skin) or the Hebrew MT. And sometimes he blended the two textual families together as did some of the other New Testament writers. So, dealing with two or maybe 3 different textual families and being free to quote from ANY of them is not only something that has to be worked out if (if) we were to accept the Greek original tradition. Just saying.
Kindly,
Mike
In addition you/we still have to deal with the different vorlages or variences of the Old Testament text. Say Aramaic Primacy is true and Aramaic was the original language for ALL 27/22 books of the New Testament. We / you still have to deal with the differences, varients of the Old Testament whether Aramaic or Greek be the original of the New Testament. For, sometimes the writer(s) of the New Testament (say Paul or Peter, but for the most part, Paul) seemed to use TWO different textual families in his quotations of the Old Testament. He would either quote from the Hebrew LXX (the Hebrew underneath the Greek LXX skin) or the Hebrew MT. And sometimes he blended the two textual families together as did some of the other New Testament writers. So, dealing with two or maybe 3 different textual families and being free to quote from ANY of them is not only something that has to be worked out if (if) we were to accept the Greek original tradition. Just saying.
Kindly,
Mike