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Harstad et al claim that the Byzantine tradition represents an older tradition than
Sinaiticus, Vaticanus and others of the "Coptic" tradition. They say that
accident of preservation does not necessarily mean older tradition.
Of interest to the B-Hebrew subject, the Byzantine tradition preserves more hard
consonants than the Nestlé text, e.g. Nazaret instead of Nazareth, Matthaion
instead of Maththaion, Kaparnaum instead of Kafarnaum (modern Kfarnahum) (e.g.
Matt. 4:13). However most hard consonants had turned to soft (t -> th, p ->
f, etc.) by that time, even in the Byzantine tradition.
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