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Notes:
This involves reading the evidence carefully according to the “Critical Signs” that appear in the text and in the apparatus at the bottom of the page in the Nestle-Aland text (for help see Introduction, especially pp. 52-57, the blue handout “Explanation of the Nestle Signs,” the Sample in the next slide, and the Examples on the handout).
- Note the type of variant (alternative readings, insertion, deletion, etc.; see Nestle signs)
- In left column list the alternative readings
- In next column list the Manuscript support for each variant
- Fill in "geographical/ text type" information for each Manuscript from "Text-Types and Witnesses" chart as much as possible
See the Sample of this process that follows on the next two slides, and also the examples in the Textual Criticism handout.
