<Ropes reads OUN for DE in Bezae for Acts 7:12. This is minutia but I
<cannot find this reading in any other source available to me. Alford
<tracks with Ropes about 99% even on spelling issues like EI for H, etc.
<So I am wondering if Ropes slipped up here or if this reading has fallen
<through the cracks in my other sources.
<Could some one who has von Sonden check this reading and let me know?
I've checked Ropes again, and can't see why he would have slipped up on
this--how would it come about? But it's true that the standard texts don't
give this reading in D (but then, they skip dozens and dozens of D readings
in Acts, so it doesn't prove much).
My (smaller) von Soden is at home in my study, so I phoned my wife, who
looked it up for me; Kleine von Soden doesn't mention the reading, either.
I don't have the full one at hand. I checked my Editio VIII Minor of
Tischendorf, which doesn't give it; unfortunately, my Editio Maior consists
of only Vols. I and III--thus is missing exactly the volume Clay needs.
So that's the best I can do without using the library, which requires time
I'm short on just now.
He adds:
<Is von Soden available anywhere for purchase? If not is there some other
<reference that would serve as a substitute? I understand (from K. & B.
<Aland's book) that von Soden is somewhat difficult to use. Can anyone
<verify this? What is one to do if one wants to study the text of the NT
<in detail?
It IS difficult to use, since he uses his own system of nomenclature for
the MSS. For the last question, the answer is: Move to somewhere near a
university loibrary which has all these sources--and even then, pray for
the completion of the International Project. (My guess is that Acts will
be ready about 2097 A.D., based on the fact that Colwell started me working
on Luke for the project in 1948 on the fact that Colwell started me on Luke
for the project in 1948, and you see how far it has progressed!)
Edward Hobbs