Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

On 30/03/2007 01:14, dwashbur AT nyx.net wrote:
> On 29 Mar 2007 at 17:01, Jimmy Doyle wrote:
>
> [snip]
>   
> > before 1500 ce we reckon with some 6000 masoretic mss, 200 fragmentary
> >     
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> Ummmm, is this a typo? 6000 seems like an awful lot...
>
>   
I doubt it. In the late Middle Ages manuscripts were basically mass 
produced. So, although these copies were not free of errors, counting 
them is really of little more significance for textual criticism than is 
counting the number of copies of a printed edition.


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