A Further Response to Brice Jones

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In a prior post, I responded to Brice Jones’ original critique of my chapter in The Early Text of the New Testament.  He has taken a moment to respond on his website here.  I want to thank Brice for this interesting and stimulating interaction.  Certainly anyone should be thanked who is willing to read and interact with a $140 book!  I will offer just a few final reflections here.

I only want to address the following paragraph where Brice summarizes his complaint:

The main difficulty that I find with your essay is your move from a few select passages that do not refer to attitudes toward reproduction

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Review of “The Early Text of the New Testament”

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This past year, Charles Hill and I edited a volume for Oxford University Press entitled, The Early Text of the New Testament.  This is a compilation of essays from scholars around the world exploring the state of the NT text at its earliest (accessible) stages.  Although the book was released in the UK in June, it was not available in the US until around Sept 1st.  So, there has been no time for any reviews to be published.

However, my friend Tommy Wasserman has pointed out that there has been an online review over at Rick Brannon’s website, ricoblog.  Thanks to Rick for this very positive review!  Here …

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