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Manuscript Hermeneutics

(Update #3)

We begin with the unfortunate fact that important past scholarship has violated a very simple principle:

The Age Principle

A young manuscript might be a reliable copy of an old manuscript and an old manuscript might be an unreliable copy of an old manuscript.  This leads to the following principle:

The age of a manuscript has no bearing on its correctness.

This principle was first stated at http://lfnexus.com/manuscripthermeneutics.htm on our original website.