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Floating Words: Their Significance for Textual Criticism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

J. M. Ross
J. M. Ross
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Extract

It is often held that where a word or passage is not found in all the manuscripts, but occupies different places in the manuscripts in which it does occur, that is a sign (though not an incontestable proof) that it was not in the original text but has been interpolated.

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Short Studies
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New Testament Studies , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , January 1992 , pp. 153 - 156
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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References

1 I had previously written about this case in NovT 25 (1983) 62.Google Scholar

2 Cf. Harald Riesenfeld's study reproduced as chap. V of The Gospel Tradition. (Fortress, Philadelphia, 1970).Google Scholar

3 In his article ‘The Silenced Wives of Corinth’, New Testament Textual Criticism (Essays in Honour of Metzger, Bruce M.; ed. Epp, E. J. and Fee, G. D.; Oxford Univ., 1981) 219.Google Scholar