Textual_criticism

qas: question: What type of documents does a textual critic usually analyze?
answers: text: a manuscript copy, several or many copies, but not the original document
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question: What is the proper name for textual scholarship?
answers: text: philology
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question: Why are there differences in ancient copies of the same text?
answers: text: Ancient scribes made alterations when copying manuscripts by hand
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question: What do textual critics call a revised edition of a text?
answers: text: recensions
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question: What type of edition does a textual critic usually analyze?
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question: What is the goal of the textual author?
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question: What is the proper name for textual profession?
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question: Why are there differences in modern copies of the same text?
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question: What do textual critics call a perfectly translated edition of a text?
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question: Why did Professor Skousen gather fragments and have them analyzed?
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question: Who was only permitted to select one reading?
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question: What did Bower's say about Greg's method?
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context: Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants in either manuscripts or printed books. Ancient scribes made alterations when copying manuscripts by hand. Given a manuscript copy, several or many copies, but not the original document, the textual critic might seek to reconstruct the original text (the archetype or autograph) as closely as possible. The same processes can be used to attempt to reconstruct intermediate versions, or recensions, of a document's transcription history. The ultimate objective of the textual critic's work is the production of a "critical edition" containing a scholarly curated text.

qas: question: Interest in an analysis of what text has arose in the early 1970's?
answers: text: Qur'an
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question: Why are scholars concerned with analysis of the Gospels over the letters?
answers: text: biblical books that are letters, like Greek plays, presumably had one original
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question: Why is it important for textual critics to analyze the Gospels?
answers: text: the question of whether some biblical books, like the Gospels, ever had just one original has been discussed
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question: What manuscripts prompted a textual analysis of the Qur'an
answers: text: Sana'a manuscripts
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question: When were the Sana'a manuscripts probably written?
answers: text: possibly date back to the 7–8th centuries.
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question: Interest in an analysis of what text has arose in the early 8th century?
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question: Why are scholars concerned with analysis of plays?
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question: Why is it important for textual critics to analyze plays?
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question:  What books prompted a textual analysis of modern work?
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question: Which manuscript was written in 1972?
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question: What are the similarities in the text of witnesses known as?
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question: What was the initial definition of copy-text?
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question: What minor things can be included and validate a copyright?
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context: Many ancient works, such as the Bible and the Greek tragedies,[citation needed] survive in hundreds of copies, and the relationship of each copy to the original may be unclear. Textual scholars have debated for centuries which sources are most closely derived from the original, hence which readings in those sources are correct.[citation needed] Although biblical books that are letters, like Greek plays, presumably had one original, the question of whether some biblical books, like the Gospels, ever had just one original has been discussed. Interest in applying textual criticism to the Qur'an has also developed after the discovery of the Sana'a manuscripts in 1972, which possibly date back to the 7–8th centuries.

qas: question: What is one reasons Shakespeare is a good place to focus on textual criticism?
answers: text: the texts, as transmitted, contain a considerable amount of variation,
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question: Aside from Shakespeare, what is another book that is a major focus of textual criticism?
answers: text: Bible
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question: Name two of the oldest civilizations that textual criticism has focused on.
answers: text: Mesopotamia and Egypt
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question: Why is there opposition to textual criticism of Jewish and Muslim religious books?
answers: text: is, to the devout, taboo.
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question: Over approximately what expanse of time can textual criticism be applied to written works?
answers: text: a period of about five millennia
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question: Why do critics hate focusing on Shakespeare?
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question: What book did Shakespeare write?
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question: When were the most recent documents in criticism? 
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question: It's too taboo to criticize the Torah, Qur'an, and what other religion?
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question: When did FARMS stop existing?
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question: What are editors trying to ultimately accomplish?
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question: Eclectic criticism is not similar to what type of process? 
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context: In the English language, the works of Shakespeare have been a particularly fertile ground for textual criticism—both because the texts, as transmitted, contain a considerable amount of variation, and because the effort and expense of producing superior editions of his works have always been widely viewed as worthwhile. The principles of textual criticism, although originally developed and refined for works of antiquity, the Bible, and Shakespeare, have been applied to many works, extending backwards from the present to the earliest known written documents, in Mesopotamia and Egypt—a period of about five millennia. However, the application of textual criticism to non-religious works does not antedate the invention of printing. While Christianity has been relatively receptive to textual criticism, application of it to the Jewish (Masoretic) Torah and the Qur'an is, to the devout, taboo.[citation needed]

qas: question: What is the first goal when attempting to analyze a new text?
answers: text: identification of the first exemplar
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question: Why is finding the first exemplar important in textual criticism?
answers: text: split in the tradition
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question: The exemplar is otherwise known as what?
answers: text: the archetype
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question: The final product of reconstruction is known as what?
answers: text: the constitutio
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question: What is the second goal when attempting to analyze a new text?
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question: Why is finding the last exemplar important in textual criticism?
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question:  The first product of reconstruction is known as what?
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question:  The middle product of reconstruction is known as what?
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question:  The final product of reconstruction is known as what?
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question: The editor sought to raise subjectivity by what?
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question: What is the fourth way the textual critic considers evidence?
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question: To what did Joseph Bédier attribute the prevalence of the stemmatic method?
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context: Maas comments further that "A dictation revised by the author must be regarded as equivalent to an autograph manuscript". The lack of autograph manuscripts applies to many cultures other than Greek and Roman. In such a situation, a key objective becomes the identification of the first exemplar before any split in the tradition. That exemplar is known as the archetype. "If we succeed in establishing the text of [the archetype], the constitutio (reconstruction of the original) is considerably advanced.

qas: question: What is included in or accompanies in "critical edition"?
answers: text: apparatus criticus or critical apparatus
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question: What is the purpose of the critical apparatus?
answers: text: presents the author's work in three parts
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question: What is the goal of the textual critic?
answers: text: a "critical edition"
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question: A critical edition of a text is accompanied by what?
answers: text: apparatus criticus or critical apparatus.
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question: What is included in the first part of the critical apparatus?
answers: text: a list or description of the evidence that the editor used (names of manuscripts, or abbreviations called sigla)
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question: What is included in the second part of the critical apparatus?
answers: text: the editor's analysis of that evidence (sometimes a simple likelihood rating)
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question: What is included in the final part of the critical apparatus?
answers: text: a record of rejected variants of the text (often in order of preference)
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question: What is included in "ultimate edition"?
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question: What is the purpose of the rejected apparatus?
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question: How many parts is in the textual apparatus?
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question: What is the fourth part in the critical apparatus?
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question: What is a technique borrowed from physics?
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question: What's the gap between original Christian texts and subsequent editions of the same works?
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question: At what point can a critic using the stemmatic become less concerned with critical analysis?
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context: The textual critic's ultimate objective is the production of a "critical edition".[citation needed] This contains the text that the author has determined most closely approximates the original, and is accompanied by an apparatus criticus or critical apparatus. The critical apparatus presents the author's work in three parts: first, a list or description of the evidence that the editor used (names of manuscripts, or abbreviations called sigla); second, the editor's analysis of that evidence (sometimes a simple likelihood rating),[citation needed]; and third, a record of rejected variants of the text (often in order of preference).[citation needed]

qas: question: Why are there multiple variations of texts before the advent of the printing press?
answers: text: literature was copied by hand
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question: Are printed editions immune to variation?
answers: text: not immune to introducing variations from an author's autograph
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question: How do differences in works arise when using a printing press?
answers: text: a compositor or a printing shop may read or typeset a work in a way that differs from the autograph
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question: An edited text compiled through many sources is known as what?
answers: text: eclectic.
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question: How did they copy literature before they did it by hand?
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question: How did they copy literature after mechanical printing?
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question: How do printing presses provide identical copies?
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question: Why do textual critics prefer to use multiple sources?
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question: How many rules were proposed in the 1881 publication of the New Testament in Greek?
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question: What did Bower's say about Greg's method?
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question: Are there times when an editor's judgement should be deferred?
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context: Before mechanical printing, literature was copied by hand, and many variations were introduced by copyists. The age of printing made the scribal profession effectively redundant. Printed editions, while less susceptible to the proliferation of variations likely to arise during manual transmission, are nonetheless not immune to introducing variations from an author's autograph. Instead of a scribe miscopying his source, a compositor or a printing shop may read or typeset a work in a way that differs from the autograph. Since each scribe or printer commits different errors, reconstruction of the lost original is often aided by a selection of readings taken from many sources. An edited text that draws from multiple sources is said to be eclectic. In contrast to this approach, some textual critics prefer to identify the single best surviving text, and not to combine readings from multiple sources.

qas: question: Different documents that represent the same original text are called what?
answers: text: witnesses
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question: What are the variations in the text of witnesses known as?
answers: text: variant readings, or simply variants or readings.
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question: How or why do variations enter a witness text?
answers: text: either by accident (duplication or omission) or intention (harmonization or censorship)
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question: As well as representing the original text, a critical text must also do what?
answers: text: document variant readings
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question: Why is it important to document variations in witness texts when compiling a critical text?
answers: text: so the relation of extant witnesses to the reconstructed original is apparent to a reader of the critical edition.
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question: Identical documents that represent different text are called what?
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question: What are the similarities in the text of witnesses known as?
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question: When do variations enter a witness text?
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question: What is the fourth way the textual critic considers evidence?
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question: What is the fifth way the textual critic considers evidence?
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question: What process what used to study the gathered fragments?
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question: Does the Bible or Plato's Republic have more witnesses?
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question: Define "lectio difficilior"
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context: When comparing different documents, or "witnesses", of a single, original text, the observed differences are called variant readings, or simply variants or readings. It is not always apparent which single variant represents the author's original work. The process of textual criticism seeks to explain how each variant may have entered the text, either by accident (duplication or omission) or intention (harmonization or censorship), as scribes or supervisors transmitted the original author's text by copying it. The textual critic's task, therefore, is to sort through the variants, eliminating those most likely to be un-original, hence establishing a "critical text", or critical edition, that is intended to best approximate the original. At the same time, the critical text should document variant readings, so the relation of extant witnesses to the reconstructed original is apparent to a reader of the critical edition. In establishing the critical text, the textual critic considers both "external" evidence (the age, provenance, and affiliation of each witness) and "internal" or "physical" considerations (what the author and scribes, or printers, were likely to have done).

qas: question: What is a variorum?
answers: text: The collation of all known variants of a text
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question: What is the purpose of a variorum?
answers: text: so that a reader can track how textual decisions have been made in the preparation of a text for publication
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question: Name one author who is less frequently the subject of a variorum.
answers: text: Edward Fitzgerald
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question: Name two works that are often the subject of a variorum.
answers: text: The Bible and the works of William Shakespeare
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question: What is the name for the collation of all unknown variants of a text?
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question: What is it called when the variations are texts are read separately?
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question: What book wasn't a product of variorum?
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question: What author wasn't part of a variorum?
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question: Leaves of Grass did not undergo what process?
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question: How did McKerrow alter his approach to copy-text analysis?
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question: What do editors call variants that are not balanced?
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question: Define "lectio difficilior"
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context: The collation of all known variants of a text is referred to as a variorum, namely a work of textual criticism whereby all variations and emendations are set side by side so that a reader can track how textual decisions have been made in the preparation of a text for publication. The Bible and the works of William Shakespeare have often been the subjects of variorum editions, although the same techniques have been applied with less frequency to many other works, such as Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, and the prose writings of Edward Fitzgerald.

qas: question: What is often included in an eclectic reading?
answers: text: an impression of the number of witnesses
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question: Why would someone prefer a second edition to a first edition?
answers: text: a second edition of a Shakespeare play may include an addition alluding to an event known to have happened between the two editions
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question: Do textual critics always include additions found in the majority of subsequent versions of a work?
answers: text: textual critics may reconstruct the original without the addition.
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question: What do eclectic readings not do?
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question: Why do people prefer a first edition Shakespeare play?
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question: Which edition did not include an addition alluding to an event?
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question: Textual critics may reconstruct the last edition of a work without what?
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question: What did Tanselle say about textual criticism?
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question: When did scholars stop looking for more rigorous methods?
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question: When did FARMS stop existing?
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context: Eclectic readings also normally give an impression of the number of witnesses to each available reading. Although a reading supported by the majority of witnesses is frequently preferred, this does not follow automatically. For example, a second edition of a Shakespeare play may include an addition alluding to an event known to have happened between the two editions. Although nearly all subsequent manuscripts may have included the addition, textual critics may reconstruct the original without the addition.

qas: question: What is external evidence?
answers: text: evidence of each physical witness, its date, source, and relationship to other known witnesses.
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question: Why are older manuscripts preferred?
answers: text: Since errors tend to accumulate, older manuscripts should have fewer errors.
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question: What characteristic of a compilation of witnesses is the most beneficial to a textual critic?
answers: text: geographically diverse
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question: What characteristic of a single witness is the most beneficial to a textual critic?
answers: text: more than one prior copy (exemplar) was consulted in producing the current one
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question: External evidence is evidence of each physical witness, its date, source, relationship to other known witnesses, and what else? 
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question: Why do critics prefer the newest witnesses?
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question: Why do critics prefer minority of witnesses?
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question: Why do critics prefer geographically similar witnesses?
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question: There are more early copies than what type of copies?
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question: Interest in an analysis of what text has arose in the early 8th century?
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question: Phylogenetic systematics was originally called what?
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question: What is the main principle of lectio difficilior?
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context: External evidence is evidence of each physical witness, its date, source, and relationship to other known witnesses. Critics will often prefer the readings supported by the oldest witnesses. Since errors tend to accumulate, older manuscripts should have fewer errors. Readings supported by a majority of witnesses are also usually preferred, since these are less likely to reflect accidents or individual biases. For the same reasons, the most geographically diverse witnesses are preferred. Some manuscripts show evidence that particular care was taken in their composition, for example, by including alternative readings in their margins, demonstrating that more than one prior copy (exemplar) was consulted in producing the current one. Other factors being equal, these are the best witnesses. The role of the textual critic is necessary when these basic criteria are in conflict. For instance, there will typically be fewer early copies, and a larger number of later copies. The textual critic will attempt to balance these criteria, to determine the original text.

qas: question: Define "lectio brevior"
answers: text: shorter reading
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question: Define "lectio difficilior"
answers: text: more difficult reading
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question: What is the main principle of lectio brevior?
answers: text: scribes tended to add words, for clarification or out of habit
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question: What is the main principle of lectio difficilior?
answers: text: the tendency for harmonization—resolving apparent inconsistencies in the text.
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question: Is a lectio brevrio or lectio difficilior approach more akin to the original text?
answers: text: Applying this principle leads to taking the more difficult (unharmonized) reading as being more likely to be the original.
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question: What's the term for "longer reading"?
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question: What's the term for "easier reading"?
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question: What is the term for when words are deducted for clarification?
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question: What is the term for when there are consistencies in the text?
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question: There are more early copies than what type of copies?
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question: McKerrow stayed firm in which opinion?
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question: To what degree do variations in the Old Testament alter the meaning?
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context: Two common considerations have the Latin names lectio brevior (shorter reading) and lectio difficilior (more difficult reading). The first is the general observation that scribes tended to add words, for clarification or out of habit, more often than they removed them. The second, lectio difficilior potior (the harder reading is stronger), recognizes the tendency for harmonization—resolving apparent inconsistencies in the text. Applying this principle leads to taking the more difficult (unharmonized) reading as being more likely to be the original. Such cases also include scribes simplifying and smoothing texts they did not fully understand.

qas: question: How many rules were proposed in the 1881 publication of the New Testament in Greek?
answers: text: They proposed nine critical rules
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question: What is Bengel's rule?
answers: text: The reading is less likely to be original that shows a disposition to smooth away difficulties.
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question: Does ease of reading correlate to accuracy in relation to the original text?
answers: text: "The reading is to be preferred that most fitly explains the existence of the others."
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question: What is more important for a textual critic: quality or quantity?
answers: text: Readings are approved or rejected by reason of the quality, and not the number, of their supporting witnesses
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question: What is the criteria needed to include or dismiss a reading when critiquing texts?
answers: text: The reading is to be preferred that most fitly explains the existence of the others.
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question: When did Westcott and Hort meet?
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question: When did Westcott and Hort go into business together?
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question: When did they propose Bengel's rule?
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question: The number of supporting witnesses explains why readings are what?
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question: Which reading is less preferred? 
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question: If an editor can't achieve an exact reproduction of an authors work, what should be the goal?
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question: What should one do when two readings are contradictory but balanced?
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question: There are more early copies than what type of copies?
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context: Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901) and Fenton J. A. Hort (1828–1892) published an edition of the New Testament in Greek in 1881. They proposed nine critical rules, including a version of Bengel's rule, "The reading is less likely to be original that shows a disposition to smooth away difficulties." They also argued that "Readings are approved or rejected by reason of the quality, and not the number, of their supporting witnesses", and that "The reading is to be preferred that most fitly explains the existence of the others."

qas: question: Is textual criticism immune to bias on the part of the critic?
answers: text: justify a result that fits the textual critic's aesthetic or theological agenda
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question: When did scientists begin searching for a more defined guideline for textual criticism?
answers: text: 19th century
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question: What inclusion helps readers and critics understand the motivation behind the compiler?
answers: text: The citing of sources used, and alternate readings, and the use of original text and images
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question: What is a further benefit of including sources, texts and original images in a critique?
answers: text: the depth of research of the critic
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question: What canons are not susceptible to interpretation?
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question: What canons are not contradictory?
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question: When did scholars stop looking for more rigorous methods?
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question: The editor sought to raise subjectivity by what?
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question: Who was only permitted to select one reading?
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question: What rights do scientific publications in the EU enjoy?
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question: Why do critics prefer the newest witnesses?
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question: Why would someone prefer a second edition to a first edition?
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context: Since the canons of criticism are highly susceptible to interpretation, and at times even contradict each other, they may be employed to justify a result that fits the textual critic's aesthetic or theological agenda. Starting in the 19th century, scholars sought more rigorous methods to guide editorial judgment. Best-text editing (a complete rejection of eclecticism) became one extreme. Stemmatics and copy-text editing – while both eclectic, in that they permit the editor to select readings from multiple sources – sought to reduce subjectivity by establishing one or a few witnesses presumably as being favored by "objective" criteria.[citation needed] The citing of sources used, and alternate readings, and the use of original text and images helps readers and other critics determine to an extent the depth of research of the critic, and to independently verify their work.

qas: question: What is stemmatics?
answers: text: a rigorous approach to textual criticism
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question: What is a cladogram?
answers: text: The family tree is also referred to as a cladogram.
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question: What is implied when two witnesses have a number of errors in common?
answers: text: it may be presumed that they were derived from a common intermediate source
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question: What is a hyparchetype?
answers: text: a common intermediate source
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question: What is recension?
answers: text: The process of constructing the stemma
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question: A loose approach to textual criticism is called what?
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question: When did Karl Lachmann contribute to making stemmatics famous?
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question: How did Lachmann make stemmatics famous?
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question: The final stage of the stemma is called what?
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question: Recension and Latin recensio is latin for what?
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question: How does the expanse of time correlate to authenticity with regard to original and subsequent versions of texts?
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question: Eclectic criticism is not similar to what type of process? 
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question: Why did Joseph Bédier prefer stemmatics?
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context: Stemmatics, stemmology or stemmatology is a rigorous approach to textual criticism. Karl Lachmann (1793–1851) greatly contributed to making this method famous, even though he did not invent it. The method takes its name from the word stemma. The Ancient Greek word στέμματα and its loanword in classical Latin stemmata may refer to "family trees". This specific meaning shows the relationships of the surviving witnesses (the first known example of such a stemma, albeit with the name, dates from 1827). The family tree is also referred to as a cladogram. The method works from the principle that "community of error implies community of origin." That is, if two witnesses have a number of errors in common, it may be presumed that they were derived from a common intermediate source, called a hyparchetype. Relations between the lost intermediates are determined by the same process, placing all extant manuscripts in a family tree or stemma codicum descended from a single archetype. The process of constructing the stemma is called recension, or the Latin recensio.

qas: question: Which steps most closely resembles copy-text editing?
answers: text: examinatio and emendatio
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question: What process is best used when only one manuscript is viable?
answers: text: copy text editing
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question: What process is best used when there are a number of viable manuscripts available?
answers: text: eclecticism
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question: The process of selectio does not resemble what type of criticism? 
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question: Eclectic criticism is not similar to what type of process? 
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question:  Which steps do not resemble copy-text editing?
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question: What process is not used when there are a number of viable manuscripts available?
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question: When manuscripts are bad, what process gets used?
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question: Does Greg believe a later work can be substituted for a earlier one?
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question: Why are there multiple variations of texts before the advent of the printing press?
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question: What inclusion helps readers and critics understand the motivation behind the compiler?
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context: The process of selectio resembles eclectic textual criticism, but applied to a restricted set of hypothetical hyparchetypes. The steps of examinatio and emendatio resemble copy-text editing. In fact, the other techniques can be seen as special cases of stemmatics in which a rigorous family history of the text cannot be determined but only approximated. If it seems that one manuscript is by far the best text, then copy text editing is appropriate, and if it seems that a group of manuscripts are good, then eclecticism on that group would be proper.

qas: question: What was Joseph Bédier's main criticism of the stemmatic method?
answers: text: critics tended overwhelmingly to produce trees divided into just two branches.
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question: Why is a methos that only produces two branches seen as inferior?
answers: text: the method was tending to produce bipartite stemmas regardless of the actual history of the witnesses.
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question: To what did Joseph Bédier attribute the prevalence of the stemmatic method?
answers: text: editors tended to favor trees with two branches
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question: Why would editors only want two alternative branches when analyzing a text?
answers: text: this would maximize the opportunities for editorial judgment
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question: What was the final implication of Joseph Bédier's analysis of the stemmatic method?
answers: text: the method was not as rigorous or as scientific as its proponents had claimed.
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question: Why did Joseph Bédier prefer stemmatics?
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question:  Why is a method that only produces two branches seen as the best?
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question: Trees with two branches minimized opportunities for that? 
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question: When witnesses agree, what did the third branch do?
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question: Which method was more rigorous than originally claimed?
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question: How many revisions did early editions have?
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question: What is the first step in the stemmatic method?
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question: What are not protected by copyright?
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context: The critic Joseph Bédier (1864–1938) launched a particularly withering attack on stemmatics in 1928. He surveyed editions of medieval French texts that were produced with the stemmatic method, and found that textual critics tended overwhelmingly to produce trees divided into just two branches. He concluded that this outcome was unlikely to have occurred by chance, and that therefore, the method was tending to produce bipartite stemmas regardless of the actual history of the witnesses. He suspected that editors tended to favor trees with two branches, as this would maximize the opportunities for editorial judgment (as there would be no third branch to "break the tie" whenever the witnesses disagreed). He also noted that, for many works, more than one reasonable stemma could be postulated, suggesting that the method was not as rigorous or as scientific as its proponents had claimed.

qas: question: What is the last step in the stemmatic method?
answers: text: emendatio
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question: At what point can a critic using the stemmatic become less concerned with critical analysis?
answers: text: the critic employs conjecture at every step of the process
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question: Why may the dominant reading may be the weaker reading?
answers: text: , it may be no more than fortuitous that more witnesses have survived that present a particular reading
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question: What is the first step in the stemmatic method?
is_impossible: yes

question: What judgement produces the correct result?
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question: Which reading does the critic select when there are only two witnesses at the same tree?
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question: A reading that occurs left often is always considered what?
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question: What is the first goal when attempting to analyze a new text?
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question: Who is the head of FARMS?
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question: What are editors trying to ultimately accomplish?
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context: The stemmatic method's final step is emendatio, also sometimes referred to as "conjectural emendation." But in fact, the critic employs conjecture at every step of the process. Some of the method's rules that are designed to reduce the exercise of editorial judgment do not necessarily produce the correct result. For example, where there are more than two witnesses at the same level of the tree, normally the critic will select the dominant reading. However, it may be no more than fortuitous that more witnesses have survived that present a particular reading. A plausible reading that occurs less often may, nevertheless, be the correct one.

qas: question: When was the term copy-text introduced?
answers: text: 1904
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question: What was the initial definition of copy-text?
answers: text: the text used in each particular case as the basis of mine
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question: Explain the process used by McKerrow as an alternative to the stemmaic method
answers: text: choose one particular text that was thought to be particularly reliable, and then to emend it only where the text was obviously corrupt.
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question: When was Ronald B. McKerrow born?
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question: What year did Thomas Nashe introduce the term copy-text?
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question: Thomas Nash is a bibliographer who published whose works? 
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question: Nashe was aware of limitations of which method?
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question: Ronald B. McKerror was a french critic who did like which method?
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question: As well as representing the original text, a critical text must also do what?
is_impossible: yes

question: What do eclectic readings not do?
is_impossible: yes

question: What school did Ellis Rasmussen not teach at?
is_impossible: yes
context: The bibliographer Ronald B. McKerrow introduced the term copy-text in his 1904 edition of the works of Thomas Nashe, defining it as "the text used in each particular case as the basis of mine." McKerrow was aware of the limitations of the stemmatic method, and believed it was more prudent to choose one particular text that was thought to be particularly reliable, and then to emend it only where the text was obviously corrupt. The French critic Joseph Bédier likewise became disenchanted with the stemmatic method, and concluded that the editor should choose the best available text, and emend it as little as possible.

qas: question: Why did McKerrow alter his previous method of criticism?
answers: text: deviate more widely than the earliest print from the author's original manuscript."
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question: How did McKerrow alter his approach to copy-text analysis?
answers: text: inserting into it, from the first edition which contains them, such corrections as appear to us to be derived from the author."
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question: What did McKerrow concede about his new copy-text method?
answers: text: we must accept all the alterations of that edition, saving any which seem obvious blunders or misprints
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question: What work was the first to see McKerrow use his new method?
answers: text: Prolegomena for the Oxford Shakespeare
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question: What book did Shakespeare publish in 1939?
is_impossible: yes

question: McKerrow stayed firm in which opinion?
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question: How many revisions did early editions have?
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question: McKerrow thinks we should only accept one revision for what reason?
is_impossible: yes

question: Name two works that are often the subject of a variorum.
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question: Who is the head of FARMS?
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question: There are more early copies than what type of copies?
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context: By 1939, in his Prolegomena for the Oxford Shakespeare, McKerrow had changed his mind about this approach, as he feared that a later edition – even if it contained authorial corrections – would "deviate more widely than the earliest print from the author's original manuscript." He therefore concluded that the correct procedure would be "produced by using the earliest "good" print as copy-text and inserting into it, from the first edition which contains them, such corrections as appear to us to be derived from the author." But, fearing the arbitrary exercise of editorial judgment, McKerrow stated that, having concluded that a later edition had substantive revisions attributable to the author, "we must accept all the alterations of that edition, saving any which seem obvious blunders or misprints."

qas: question: Are there times when an editor's judgement should be deferred?
answers: text: the claims of two readings ... appear to be exactly balanced
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question: What should one do when two readings are contradictory but balanced?
answers: text: if there is no reason for altering its reading, the obvious thing seems to be to let it stand.
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question: What do editors call variants that are exactly balanced?
answers: text: indifferent
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question: Who argued that an editor should not be free to use their own judgement?
is_impossible: yes

question: What do editors call variants that are not balanced?
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question: What is the term for variants that are somewhat balanced?
is_impossible: yes

question: An editor should not defer to what when variants are balanced?
is_impossible: yes

question: Why is a methos that only produces two branches seen as inferior?
is_impossible: yes

question: What do eclectic readings not do?
is_impossible: yes

question: Does Greg believe a later work can be substituted for a earlier one?
is_impossible: yes
context: Although Greg argued that an editor should be free to use his judgment to choose between competing substantive readings, he suggested that an editor should defer to the copy-text when "the claims of two readings ... appear to be exactly balanced. ... In such a case, while there can be no logical reason for giving preference to the copy-text, in practice, if there is no reason for altering its reading, the obvious thing seems to be to let it stand." The "exactly balanced" variants are said to be indifferent.

qas: question: Is the idea formed by Greg limited to a specific time period?
answers: text: The principle is sound without regard for the literary period.
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question: What will an editor do in the case where an author's work was not wiped out?
answers: text: the manuscript should generally serve as copy-text
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question: What where the limitations of Greg's analyses?
answers: text: English Renaissance drama
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question: What is the main criticism of Greg's work?
answers: text: works where an author's manuscript survived
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question: Who limited their examples to French Renaissance drama?
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question: Greg was a novice in which period of drama?
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question: According to Bowers, the manuscript should not serve as what?
is_impossible: yes

question: The principle of copy-text is sound with regard to what?
is_impossible: yes

question: Are there times when an editor's judgement should be deferred?
is_impossible: yes

question: FARMS was funded by whom?
is_impossible: yes

question: What is the fourth way the textual critic considers evidence?
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context: Whereas Greg had limited his illustrative examples to English Renaissance drama, where his expertise lay, Bowers argued that the rationale was "the most workable editorial principle yet contrived to produce a critical text that is authoritative in the maximum of its details whether the author be Shakespeare, Dryden, Fielding, Nathaniel Hawthorne, or Stephen Crane. The principle is sound without regard for the literary period." For works where an author's manuscript survived – a case Greg had not considered – Bowers concluded that the manuscript should generally serve as copy-text. Citing the example of Nathaniel Hawthorne, he noted:

qas: question: What are editors trying to ultimately accomplish?
answers: text: our ideal of an author's fair copy of his work in its final state
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question: If an editor can't achieve an exact reproduction of an authors work, what should be the goal?
answers: text: approximate as nearly as possible an inferential authorial fair copy
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question: What did Bower's say about Greg's method?
answers: text: represent the nearest approximation in every respect of the author's final intentions
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question: What did Tanselle say about textual criticism?
answers: text: has generally been undertaken with a view to reconstructing, as accurately as possible, the text finally intended by the author
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question: What are editors trying to ultimately stop?
is_impossible: yes

question: What happens when an editor achieves an exact reproduction of an authors work?
is_impossible: yes

question:  What did Tanselle say about modern authors?
is_impossible: yes

question: Bowers asserted that editions founded on Greg's method would not represent what?
is_impossible: yes

question: When was the fifth volume of Critical Text Project published?
is_impossible: yes

question: What where the limitations of Greg's analyses?
is_impossible: yes

question: What was the first step Bowers took in editing a single work with two versions?
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context: McKerrow had articulated textual criticism's goal in terms of "our ideal of an author's fair copy of his work in its final state". Bowers asserted that editions founded on Greg's method would "represent the nearest approximation in every respect of the author's final intentions." Bowers stated similarly that the editor's task is to "approximate as nearly as possible an inferential authorial fair copy." Tanselle notes that, "Textual criticism ... has generally been undertaken with a view to reconstructing, as accurately as possible, the text finally intended by the author".

qas: question: Who argued against works where the author listens to input from others?
answers: text: Bowers and Tanselle
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question: Who wanted to determine why an author made changes to a work?
answers: text: Tanselle
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question: Does Greg believe a later work can be substituted for a earlier one?
answers: text: a later reading "is one that the author can reasonably be supposed to have substituted for the former
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question: What idea did Tanselle champion?
answers: text: unconstrained authorial intention
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question: Who argued for works where the author listens to input from others?
is_impossible: yes

question: Who didn't want to determine why an author made changes to a work?
is_impossible: yes

question:  Who believes an earlier work can be substituted for a later one?
is_impossible: yes

question: Constrained authorial intention was whose idea?
is_impossible: yes

question: I what year was Maggie printed for commercial use?
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question: When was phase one completed?
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question: When did FARMS stop existing?
is_impossible: yes
context: Bowers and Tanselle argue for rejecting textual variants that an author inserted at the suggestion of others. Bowers said that his edition of Stephen Crane's first novel, Maggie, presented "the author's final and uninfluenced artistic intentions." In his writings, Tanselle refers to "unconstrained authorial intention" or "an author's uninfluenced intentions." This marks a departure from Greg, who had merely suggested that the editor inquire whether a later reading "is one that the author can reasonably be supposed to have substituted for the former", not implying any further inquiry as to why the author had made the change.

qas: question: What alterations did Crane make to secure commercial publication?
answers: text: remove profanity, but he also made stylistic revisions
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question: What was Bower's first step in editing multiple works into a single product?
answers: text: to preserve the stylistic and literary changes of 1896
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question: What was Bower's second step in editing multiple works into a single product?
answers: text: to revert to the 1893 readings where he believed that Crane was fulfilling the publisher's intention rather than his own
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question: What was one of the criticisms Bowers faced after editing Maggie?
answers: text: his judgment
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question: I what year was Maggie printed for commercial use?
answers: text: 1896
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question: What was the first step Bowers took in editing a single work with two versions?
answers: text: to preserve the stylistic and literary changes of 1896,
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question: What was the second step Bowers took in editing a single work with two versions?
answers: text: to revert to the 1893 readings where he believed that Crane was fulfilling the publisher's intention
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question: What changes were made for the commercial publication of Maggie?
answers: text: to remove profanity, but he also made stylistic revisions
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question: When was Maggie first published?
answers: text: 1893
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question:  What changes did Maggie make to secure commercial publication?
is_impossible: yes

question: When did Maggie publish her edition of Bowers?
is_impossible: yes

question: What was Bower's final step in editing a single work into multiple versions?
is_impossible: yes

question: When was the third version of Maggie published?
is_impossible: yes

question: When was the fifth and final version of Maggie published?
is_impossible: yes

question: What does not matter in order to be copyrighted?
is_impossible: yes

question: There are more early copies than what type of copies?
is_impossible: yes

question: It's too taboo to criticize the Torah, Qur'an, and what other religion?
is_impossible: yes
context: Bowers confronted a similar problem in his edition of Maggie. Crane originally printed the novel privately in 1893. To secure commercial publication in 1896, Crane agreed to remove profanity, but he also made stylistic revisions. Bowers's approach was to preserve the stylistic and literary changes of 1896, but to revert to the 1893 readings where he believed that Crane was fulfilling the publisher's intention rather than his own. There were, however, intermediate cases that could reasonably have been attributed to either intention, and some of Bowers's choices came under fire – both as to his judgment, and as to the wisdom of conflating readings from the two different versions of Maggie.

qas: question: Are appendices easy to use for the average reader?
answers: text: appendices that are difficult to use,
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question: Can a reader be certain of the validity of information found in a clear-text edition?
answers: text: suggesting a greater sense of certainty about the established text than it deserves
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question: How do most editors work around the reference problems of clear-text editing?
answers: text: notes at the foot of the text page
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question: Where can a reader find more information on text variants after noticing a footnote?
answers: text: appendices
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question: Who believes that clear-text doesn't give enough prominence? 
is_impossible: yes

question: What are generally easy to use?
is_impossible: yes

question: Shillingsburg says which editions don't use notes at the bottom of the page?
is_impossible: yes

question: What does not draw attention to alternative forms of text?
is_impossible: yes

question: Who is the head of FARMS?
is_impossible: yes

question: The process of selectio does not resemble what type of criticism? 
is_impossible: yes

question: How many parts is in the textual apparatus?
is_impossible: yes
context: Some critics believe that a clear-text edition gives the edited text too great a prominence, relegating textual variants to appendices that are difficult to use, and suggesting a greater sense of certainty about the established text than it deserves. As Shillingsburg notes, "English scholarly editions have tended to use notes at the foot of the text page, indicating, tacitly, a greater modesty about the "established" text and drawing attention more forcibly to at least some of the alternative forms of the text".

qas: question: What is the biological basis for Cladistics?
answers: text: to determine the evolutionary relationships between different species
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question: How is evolution applied to textual criticism?
answers: text: manuscripts are then grouped according to their shared characteristics
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question: How is cladistics similar to the stemmatic method?
answers: text: cladistics assumes that they are part of a branching family tree
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question: What is the main difference between cladistics and stemmatics?
answers: text: does not indicate which branch of the tree is the "root"
is_impossible: no

question: What is a technique borrowed from physics?
is_impossible: yes

question: Phylogenetic systematics was originally called what?
is_impossible: yes

question: How is cladistics the opposite of the stemmatic method?
is_impossible: yes

question: What is the mathmatical basis for Cladistics?
is_impossible: yes

question: Who limited their examples to French Renaissance drama?
is_impossible: yes

question: Why are there differences in modern copies of the same text?
is_impossible: yes

question: How did they copy literature after mechanical printing?
is_impossible: yes
context: Cladistics is a technique borrowed from biology, where it was originally named phylogenetic systematics by Willi Hennig. In biology, the technique is used to determine the evolutionary relationships between different species. In its application in textual criticism, the text of a number of different manuscripts is entered into a computer, which records all the differences between them. The manuscripts are then grouped according to their shared characteristics. The difference between cladistics and more traditional forms of statistical analysis is that, rather than simply arranging the manuscripts into rough groupings according to their overall similarity, cladistics assumes that they are part of a branching family tree and uses that assumption to derive relationships between them. This makes it more like an automated approach to stemmatics. However, where there is a difference, the computer does not attempt to decide which reading is closer to the original text, and so does not indicate which branch of the tree is the "root"—which manuscript tradition is closest to the original. Other types of evidence must be used for that purpose.

qas: question: When did textual criticism applied to the Book of Mormon?
answers: text: the early 1970s
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question: What was one portion of preparing a new edition of the Holy Scriptures?
answers: text: digitizing the text and preparing appropriate footnotes
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question: How was the most reliable version of the Holy Scriptures determined?
answers: text: applying modern text critical standards to the manuscripts
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question: When did Larson finish his project?
answers: text: 1974
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question: Whose observations were included in the 1981 publication of the Book of Mormon?
answers: text: Larson
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question: What year did true textual criticism stop being applied? 
is_impossible: yes

question: What school did Ellis Rasmussen not teach at?
is_impossible: yes

question: What church did not want a new edition of the holy scriptures? 
is_impossible: yes

question: What class did Larson teach at Rasmussen?
is_impossible: yes

question: When did Larson begin his thesis project?
is_impossible: yes

question: Why is there opposition to textual criticism of Jewish and Muslim religious books?
is_impossible: yes

question: Interest in an analysis of what text has arose in the early 8th century?
is_impossible: yes

question:  Which steps do not resemble copy-text editing?
is_impossible: yes
context: Although some earlier unpublished studies had been prepared, not until the early 1970s was true textual criticism applied to the Book of Mormon. At that time BYU Professor Ellis Rasmussen and his associates were asked by the LDS Church to begin preparation for a new edition of the Holy Scriptures. One aspect of that effort entailed digitizing the text and preparing appropriate footnotes, another aspect required establishing the most dependable text. To that latter end, Stanley R. Larson (a Rasmussen graduate student) set about applying modern text critical standards to the manuscripts and early editions of the Book of Mormon as his thesis project – which he completed in 1974. To that end, Larson carefully examined the Original Manuscript (the one dictated by Joseph Smith to his scribes) and the Printer’s Manuscript (the copy Oliver Cowdery prepared for the Printer in 1829–1830), and compared them with the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd editions of the Book of Mormon to determine what sort of changes had occurred over time and to make judgments as to which readings were the most original. Larson proceeded to publish a useful set of well-argued articles on the phenomena which he had discovered. Many of his observations were included as improvements in the 1981 LDS edition of the Book of Mormon.

qas: question: What is FARMS?
answers: text: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies
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question: Who spearheaded the Critical Text of the Book of Mormon project?
answers: text: Robert F. Smith
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question: How many years did it take to publish all three volumes of the Book of Mormon Critical Text?
answers: text: the first volume of the 3-volume Book of Mormon Critical Text in 1984. The third volume of that first edition was published in 1987
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question: Was the third volume of the first edition deemed sufficient?
answers: text: The third volume of that first edition was published in 1987, but was already being superseded by a second, revised edition of the entire work
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question: Who is the head of FARMS?
answers: text: Professor John W. Welch
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question: When did FARMS stop existing?
is_impossible: yes

question: When was the fifth volume of Critical Text Project published?
is_impossible: yes

question: What book did Grant Hardy publish in 1987?
is_impossible: yes

question: Larson begin the research for what project?
is_impossible: yes

question: FARMS was funded by whom?
is_impossible: yes

question: How many rules were proposed in the 1881 publication of the New Testament in Greek?
is_impossible: yes

question: How did McKerrow alter his approach to copy-text analysis?
is_impossible: yes

question: What is the mathmatical basis for Cladistics?
is_impossible: yes
context: By 1979, with the establishment of the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS) as a California non-profit research institution, an effort led by Robert F. Smith began to take full account of Larson’s work and to publish a Critical Text of the Book of Mormon. Thus was born the FARMS Critical Text Project which published the first volume of the 3-volume Book of Mormon Critical Text in 1984. The third volume of that first edition was published in 1987, but was already being superseded by a second, revised edition of the entire work, greatly aided through the advice and assistance of then Yale doctoral candidate Grant Hardy, Dr. Gordon C. Thomasson, Professor John W. Welch (the head of FARMS), Professor Royal Skousen, and others too numerous to mention here. However, these were merely preliminary steps to a far more exacting and all-encompassing project.

qas: question: When was phase one completed?
answers: text: 1988
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question: Who took over after the preliminary phase?
answers: text: Professor Skousen
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question: Why did Professor Skousen gather fragments and have them analyzed?
answers: text: to obtain fine readings
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question: What process what used to study the gathered fragments?
answers: text: advanced photographic techniques
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question: On what did Skousen analyze ink and pencil remnants?
answers: text: Printer’s Manuscript
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question: What year was the final phase of the project completed?
is_impossible: yes

question: Professor Skousen left what position in 1988?
is_impossible: yes

question: Who sold the community of christ church?
is_impossible: yes

question:  What did Skousen delete ink and pencil remnants from?
is_impossible: yes

question: If an editor can't achieve an exact reproduction of an authors work, what should be the goal?
is_impossible: yes

question: It's too taboo to criticize the Torah, Qur'an, and what other religion?
is_impossible: yes

question: McKerrow thinks we should only accept one revision for what reason?
is_impossible: yes
context: In 1988, with that preliminary phase of the project completed, Professor Skousen took over as editor and head of the FARMS Critical Text of the Book of Mormon Project and proceeded to gather still scattered fragments of the Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon and to have advanced photographic techniques applied to obtain fine readings from otherwise unreadable pages and fragments. He also closely examined the Printer’s Manuscript (owned by the Community of Christ—RLDS Church in Independence, Missouri) for differences in types of ink or pencil, in order to determine when and by whom they were made. He also collated the various editions of the Book of Mormon down to the present to see what sorts of changes have been made through time.

qas: question: How common are variations in text that alter the meaning of the Urtext of the Hebrew Bible?
answers: text: extremely rare
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question: To what degree do variations in the Old Testament alter the meaning?
answers: text: hardly affect any doctrine
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question: Who claims that the Old Testament is essentially the same throughout all variations?
answers: text: Professor Douglas Stuart
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question: How many variations of the Old Testament offer the same meaning?
answers: text: virtually every possible alternative reading
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question: What book did Douglas Stuart summarize?
is_impossible: yes

question: How many of the textual variants are significant?
is_impossible: yes

question: How many variants change the doctrine considerably?
is_impossible: yes

question: Stuart thought the Bible is largely different because of what?
is_impossible: yes

question: Which steps most closely resembles copy-text editing?
is_impossible: yes

question: When did scholars stop looking for more rigorous methods?
is_impossible: yes

question: What author wasn't part of a variorum?
is_impossible: yes
context: Shemaryahu Talmon, who summarized the amount of consensus and genetic relation to the Urtext of the Hebrew Bible, concluded that major divergences which intrinsically affect the sense are extremely rare. As far as the Hebrew Bible referenced by Old Testament is concerned, almost all of the textual variants are fairly insignificant and hardly affect any doctrine. Professor Douglas Stuart states: "It is fair to say that the verses, chapters, and books of the Bible would read largely the same, and would leave the same impression with the reader, even if one adopted virtually every possible alternative reading to those now serving as the basis for current English translations."

qas: question: Does the Bible or Plato's Republic have more witnesses?
answers: text: There are far fewer witnesses to classical texts than to the Bible
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question: What's the gap between original Christian texts and subsequent editions of the same works?
answers: text: within 200 years
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question: What's the gap between original classical texts and subsequent editions of the same works?
answers: text: about a millennium after their composition
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question: How does the expanse of time correlate to authenticity with regard to original and subsequent versions of texts?
answers: text: a larger time gap between an original and a manuscript means more changes in the text.
is_impossible: no

question: Plato's Republic has more witnesses than what?
is_impossible: yes

question: The Bible has fewer witnesses than what types of work?
is_impossible: yes

question: When were the latest witnesses of the New Testament?
is_impossible: yes

question: Textual scholars expect there to be a smaller time gap between an original and what?
is_impossible: yes

question: There are fewer changes in a text when there is a larger what?
is_impossible: yes

question: How did McKerrow alter his approach to copy-text analysis?
is_impossible: yes

question: What process is best used when only one manuscript is viable?
is_impossible: yes

question: When was the fifth volume of Critical Text Project published?
is_impossible: yes
context: While textual criticism developed into a discipline of thorough analysis of the Bible — both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament — scholars also use it to determine the original content of classic texts, such as Plato's Republic. There are far fewer witnesses to classical texts than to the Bible, so scholars can use stemmatics and, in some cases, copy text editing. However, unlike the New Testament where the earliest witnesses are within 200 years of the original, the earliest existing manuscripts of most classical texts were written about a millennium after their composition. All things being equal, textual scholars expect that a larger time gap between an original and a manuscript means more changes in the text.

qas: question: What is the criteria for copyright?
answers: text: if enough creativity/originality is provided
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question: What minor things can be included and not invalidate a copyright?
answers: text: The mere addition of a word, or substitution of a term with another one believed to be more correct
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question: Are footnotes included in the copyright of the original work?
answers: text: All the notes accounting for the analysis and why and how such changes have been made represent a different work autonomously copyrightable
is_impossible: no

question: What rights do scientific publications in the EU enjoy?
answers: text: the relevant neighboring right that protects critical and scientific publications of public domain works
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question: What does not matter in order to be copyrighted?
is_impossible: yes

question: What minor things can be included and validate a copyright?
is_impossible: yes

question: Non-scientific editions can be protected by what?
is_impossible: yes

question: What are not protected by copyright?
is_impossible: yes

question: All EU member states have transposed what into law?
is_impossible: yes

question: How did they copy literature after mechanical printing?
is_impossible: yes

question: What do textual critics call a revised edition of a text?
is_impossible: yes

question: What is a hyparchetype?
is_impossible: yes
context: Scientific and critical editions can be protected by copyright as works of authorship if enough creativity/originality is provided. The mere addition of a word, or substitution of a term with another one believed to be more correct, usually does not achieve such level of originality/creativity. All the notes accounting for the analysis and why and how such changes have been made represent a different work autonomously copyrightable if the other requirements are satisfied. In the European Union critical and scientific editions may be protected also by the relevant neighboring right that protects critical and scientific publications of public domain works as made possible by art. 5 of the Copyright Term Directive. Not all EU member States have transposed art. 5 into national law.