Larry Hurtado on Textual Ambiguity in Acts

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Larry Hurtado on Textual Ambiguity in Acts

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Abstract: "The correlation of God and Jesus in Acts, in particular the use of κύριος/ὁ κύριος for both, produced a number of statements in which there can be a certain degree of ambiguity as to the referent. At these points we often find variants in the manuscripts, which reflect efforts of ancient readers to disambiguate the statements and clarify the text. They often seem to have drawn upon the immediate context to help them judge matters. So the variants are artefacts of this exegetical activity of these ancient readers of Acts."

http://larryhurtado.wordpress.com/essays-etc/ (first essay listed)
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