Comments on: The Coherence-Based Genealogical Method

By: David

David — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 14:00:37 +0000

In reply to Steve. I think you're understanding of the methods used in the derived global stemmata is very much a straw man attempt misrepresenting lack of scholarly collaboration, good faith and mastery of ancestral attestation to the variation expected from thousands of years in lawmen free transmission of manuscripts in antiquity

By: steve

steve — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 08:17:14 +0000

In reply to Steve. It stripped my angle brackets denoting that the above post was tongue in cheek. I love reformed forum, just poking fun with KJVO-style quips.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 08:07:36 +0000

Ah, the bible is changing again. And even better, the priest craft of the magisterium of scholars is even more esoteric. I wonder if the software they use is “infallible?” I wonder if any more catechism questions like SC 107 falls off the boards? Actually, they should open source it so that we can pick and chose what variants we want. No, better yet, they should publish the “Gefuhl Bible”, each individual get worked up into an existential trance to subjectively discern see if any of the variants “become” the Word of God

By: Arjen Vreugdenhil

Arjen Vreugdenhil — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 05:55:03 +0000

Toward the end of the episode, Camden sketches the complexity of a statistical approach to the problem of stemmatology–“for the mathematically inclined”. This definitely goes beyond addition and division.

It reminded me of the work one of my Mathematics professors was doing in the 1990s, at the Free University in Amsterdam. I was not involved in his research, but I remember he was taking a systematic approach to stemmatology of printed editions. I am curious to know to what extent Biblical textual criticism takes advantage, not only of computational power, but also of mathematical approaches developed for this kind of investigation.