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THE SO-CALLED MIXED TEXT - CLINTON S BALDWIN GE...

In recent years  a number of scholars have identified a text-type in six of the books of the
Catholic Epistles that they have called «mixed.» The So-Called Mixed Text: An Examination of
the Non-Alexandrian and Non-Byzantine Text-Type in the Catholic Epistles is concerned with a
comprehensive identification and evaluation of this so-called mixed text-type. This mixed
category  if supported by empirical investigation to be more original than the Alexandrian and
Byzantine texts  could necessitate the re-evaluation of these established text-types and also
the re-evaluation of the designation «mixed» attributed to this group. In pursuit of this
objective  Clinton S. Baldwin undertakes an in-depth study of this mixed phenomenon by studying
407 Greek manuscripts of the Catholic Epistles. Having identified 13 mixed groups across the
Catholic Epistles  it is shown that the weighted value of this mixed category is negligible in
terms of uncovering the earliest originals. Also of significance to this study is the use of
factor analysis for the classification of New Testament Greek manuscripts. The reliability of
factor analysis is demonstrated by another vital contribution of this study: the classification
of the manuscripts of the Epistle of Jude  a book which hither-to-fore had not been
comprehensively classified. Most of the manuscripts classified by factor analysis have later
been confirmed by a modified form of the Claremont Profile Method. Finally  The So-Called Mixed
Text demonstrates that the evolution of the New Testament text  which began in the earlier
centuries  continued into the Middle Ages.

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