Wesley Huff
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Because if you only have one copy, you have to trust that the person who copied that got it right.
Because if you only have one copy, you have to trust that the person who copied that got it right.
Yeah. Which is the issue that we have for Beowulf. We only have one copy of Beowulf. And so we don't know what it looked like prior to that. So we just kind of accept that, okay, this is Beowulf. Like there's no way to compare and contrast the tradition of the manuscripts of Beowulf.
Yeah. Which is the issue that we have for Beowulf. We only have one copy of Beowulf. And so we don't know what it looked like prior to that. So we just kind of accept that, okay, this is Beowulf. Like there's no way to compare and contrast the tradition of the manuscripts of Beowulf.
Yeah. Which is the issue that we have for Beowulf. We only have one copy of Beowulf. And so we don't know what it looked like prior to that. So we just kind of accept that, okay, this is Beowulf. Like there's no way to compare and contrast the tradition of the manuscripts of Beowulf.
Yeah. And fortunately, in the modern era, we get computers involved, and that cuts out a lot of just manpower.
Yeah. And fortunately, in the modern era, we get computers involved, and that cuts out a lot of just manpower.
Yeah. And fortunately, in the modern era, we get computers involved, and that cuts out a lot of just manpower.
Well, there's an interesting ... So in Germany, at the Center for the Study of New Testament Research in Munster, they're actually ... It's called CBGM, the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method. And it's tracing not manuscripts, but readings within manuscripts and finding the relationships between the different ones by like computer models.
Well, there's an interesting ... So in Germany, at the Center for the Study of New Testament Research in Munster, they're actually ... It's called CBGM, the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method. And it's tracing not manuscripts, but readings within manuscripts and finding the relationships between the different ones by like computer models.
Well, there's an interesting ... So in Germany, at the Center for the Study of New Testament Research in Munster, they're actually ... It's called CBGM, the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method. And it's tracing not manuscripts, but readings within manuscripts and finding the relationships between the different ones by like computer models.
And so they are actually, so this is actually the way that like modern era textual criticism is being done is with these language models that operate on tracing readings.
And so they are actually, so this is actually the way that like modern era textual criticism is being done is with these language models that operate on tracing readings.
And so they are actually, so this is actually the way that like modern era textual criticism is being done is with these language models that operate on tracing readings.