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What are the 4 main reasons that the transmission of the NT is fundamentally different than the game of telephone?
(all answers from Daniel Wallace at: http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2012/03/21/an-interview-with-daniel-b-wallace-on-the-new-testament-manuscripts/) |
1. Oral vs. written transmission
2. Access to prior contributors. 3. Church Fathers 4. Different goals |
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How is the mode of transmission different between the transmission of the NT text and the transmission of the telephone message?
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"In the telephone game the goal is to garble an original utterance so that by the end of the line it doesn’t resemble the original at all. There’s only one line of transmission, it is oral rather than written, and the oral critic (the person who is trying to figure out what the original utterance was) only has the last person in line to interrogate."
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How do the lines of transmission differ between the transmission of the NT text and the transmission of the telephone message?
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1) "When it comes to the text of the NT, there are multiple lines of transmission, and the original documents were almost surely copied several times (which would best explain why they wore out by the end of the second century)."
2) "Further, the textual critic doesn’t rely on just the last person in the transmissional line, but can interrogate many scribes over the centuries, way back to the second century." |
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In what ways do the church fathers address the transmission issue?
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"...even when the early manuscript testimony is sparse, we have the early church fathers’ testimony as to what the original text said."
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How does the fundamentally different nature of the game differ between the transmission of the NT text and the the telephone game?
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"Finally, the process is not intended to be a parlor game but is intended to duplicate the original text faithfully—and this process doesn’t rely on people hearing a whole utterance whispered only once, but seeing the text and copying it."
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