tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859011.post7838841900059224406..comments2024-03-17T17:46:24.354+00:00Comments on Evangelical Textual Criticism: ETC Blog Five Year AnniversaryP.J. Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04388225485348300613noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859011.post-41300063990235599212010-10-21T22:56:21.273+01:002010-10-21T22:56:21.273+01:00White Man,
I think that there's probably more ...White Man,<br />I think that there's probably more work to do in OT TC than NT TC even if you believe that the MT is basically the required text.<br /><br />The reason for this is that we have no list of all Hebrew OT mss, only vague ideas how many there are, and certainly no sense in detail of how they are genetically related.<br /><br />Thus the amount of work to be done to define even what the Masoretic Text is as accurately as the data allow is absolutely massive.<br /><br />Moreover, even if one holds that MT is superior over other text forms (as I generally would hold) there is still a significant task to do in rationally accounting for all of the variations from that text that had currency before approximately AD 68.P.J. Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04388225485348300613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859011.post-21209905442090819142010-10-21T21:20:07.583+01:002010-10-21T21:20:07.583+01:00PJW:
It would be great to see more discussion of O...PJW:<br />It would be great to see more discussion of OT and more expertise on the OT.<br /><br />OT TC is fundamentally different from NT TC. NT TC is predicated upon the nailing down of "The New Testament in The Original Greek." <br />But this has already long since been done for the Hebrew OT. It's called the Masoretic Text, with fewer different editions in 1000 years than Nestle-Aland in 100--leaving us with nothing left to do but second-guess the Maroretes vis-a-vis the wild and fragmentary text of the Dead Sea Scrolls.The White Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732782601569135839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859011.post-71100312207070282872010-10-20T18:29:37.688+01:002010-10-20T18:29:37.688+01:00Go ahead with a competition Pete!Go ahead with a competition Pete!Tommy Wassermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10674769923361035721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859011.post-11790982088502506372010-10-20T17:30:40.502+01:002010-10-20T17:30:40.502+01:00Thanks Tommy for reminding us of this momentous ev...Thanks Tommy for reminding us of this momentous event. We should have a competition to celebrate.Peter M. Headhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03379103292621457026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859011.post-49618828683423324692010-10-20T15:05:15.131+01:002010-10-20T15:05:15.131+01:00I would just like to offer a heart felt thank you ...I would just like to offer a heart felt thank you to all of you who maintain this blog, and thank you to all who contribute postings. It is refreshing to have a place where scholarship can be discussed in an evangelical environment (to second Dr. Williams's statement). I look forward to the next five years. Let's see what's out there!Steven Whatleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09307741256832083965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859011.post-15260733671160045852010-10-20T13:43:38.450+01:002010-10-20T13:43:38.450+01:00Thanks for sharing your thoughts Pete!Thanks for sharing your thoughts Pete!Tommy Wassermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10674769923361035721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859011.post-57577092322835661272010-10-20T13:31:18.677+01:002010-10-20T13:31:18.677+01:00I can't remember much about my original expect...I can't remember much about my original expectations. I'm still happy with what I wrote back then.<br /><br />I guess I was not thinking that there would be hundreds of thousands of visits (I know that's small compared with many blogs, but not bad considering the relatively narrow focus and the level of technicality in some discussions). Nor was I expecting the range of followers and readers that I believe we have, nor to be cited in academic conferences and in publications.<br /><br />After some initial horrified reactions at the name, the blog has achieved a sense of identity and I hope that it has also broken down barriers that I thought existed previously.<br /><br />Previously, my impression was that there were evangelicals who appealed to doctrinal considerations but were typically of a Majority Text or TR persuasion. There were then those who were more persuaded by the general eclectic synthesis who were evangelicals but desperately didn't want to talk about doctrine for fear that it might suggest that they were not objective or truly scholarly.<br /><br />I hope that it is now clear that people who are unashamedly confessional can do serious scholarship, and that they do not feel that they need to take doctrinal discussion 'off line'.<br /><br />I'm glad that in certain areas some ETC scholars are second to none in expertise.<br /><br />But what of the next 5 years?<br /><br />It would be nice to see team blogs of this confessional kind in every area of biblical studies.<br /><br />It would be great to see more discussion of OT and more expertise on the OT. With apologies to my fellow bloggers, we don't yet have any world class OT TC folk, though I think we have people who are in the top few dozen for NT TC.P.J. Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04388225485348300613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859011.post-70844021125903308932010-10-20T10:32:22.234+01:002010-10-20T10:32:22.234+01:00Nice to have your comments here, revered blogfathe...Nice to have your comments here, revered blogfather.<br /><br />Actually, I am 40 too. <br /><br />What do you think when you read that very first blogpost, what the blog is about; has it developed in the way you expected?Tommy Wassermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10674769923361035721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859011.post-71103257852390727192010-10-20T10:18:17.214+01:002010-10-20T10:18:17.214+01:00We are now 1/80 of the age of the KJV, but the num...We are now 1/80 of the age of the KJV, but the number will be constantly increasing.P.J. Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04388225485348300613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859011.post-60167234963016981142010-10-20T10:16:52.647+01:002010-10-20T10:16:52.647+01:00Well doesn't time fly!
Glad to be a 'foun...Well doesn't time fly!<br /><br />Glad to be a 'founding father'. Feeling quite old now I'm 40.<br /><br />Yes, the initial choice of black background was wisely questioned by Peter Head.<br /><br />I had not planned to found the blog when I woke up that morning. It was a spur of the moment thing I did before dinner with Simon Gathercole.P.J. Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04388225485348300613noreply@blogger.com