It’s time for another round of everyone’s favorite game: “who said it?” Now, the invention of Google books has significantly diminished the challenge of this game, but it is best not to spoil it that way.
The point is that we have so many manuscripts of the NT and that these manuscripts contain so many variant readings that surely the original reading in every case is somewhere present in our vast store of material. ... We have, therefore, a genuine embarrassment of riches in the quantity of manuscripts that we possess, and this accounts, on the one hand, for the optimism in the discipline and for the promise of solid results.
So, who said it?
It’s time for another round of everyone’s favorite game: “who said it?” Now, the invention of Google books has significantly diminished the challenge of this game, but it is best not to spoil it that way.
Dan Wallace?
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ReplyDeleteThat is a very good guess, but no.
ReplyDeleteDan Wallace and the title of the conference gives it away EMBARASSMENT OF RICHES. It's in sermon audio.
ReplyDeleteEpp, “Decision Points
ReplyDeletein Past, Present, and Future New Testament Textual Criticism
Paolo is right! (He should know because he quotes him.) The essay was originally published as “Textual Criticism,” in The New Testament and Its Modern Interpreters, ed. Eldon Jay Epp and George W. MacRae, The Bible and Its Modern Interpreters (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989).
DeletePaolo,
DeleteAs expected!!!!
Tim
If I'm not mistaken, Beyonce opened her set at Coachella with this point.
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DeleteOh my gosh Ben, I do believe that is the very best response to anything I have ever seen on this website anywhere.
DeleteOther than so many of Ryan's own comments that is.
DeleteHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!! We need to get a pint sometime!!
DeleteI have heard that the poor Beyonce fell to the ground at Coachella. :)
DeleteThis view is no longer held by Dr. Epp, am I right?
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