How does one "misuse" a manuscript?
List of Totally or Partially Omitted, Transposed and Interpolated Bible Passages
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By forging information that they would like to enter. After making a last copy is when they destroy the manuscript copy in order to perpetuate a continued tradition of ongoing correct manuscript. Of course this cannot occur in modern times because the translators have all of the manuscript copies.
If they wanted to defraud, during the copy process is the best time. Destroying the original serves to hide the evidence.
I still don't see how destroying the original ever makes sense for legitimate actors. At worst you have an old manuscript lying around, at best you have an artifact to compare against in cases of doubt or confusion.
I still don't see how destroying the original ever makes sense for legitimate actors. At worst you have an old manuscript lying around, at best you have an artifact to compare against in cases of doubt or confusion.
Of course all that we are talking about would have had to happen when copies of manuscripts were being produced. The copiers (scribes) did pretty good and is why there in only one false manuscript source, and not more. The corrupted source is referred to as the Minority Text
(Alexandrian Text). The true manuscript source is the Majority Text (Traditional Text).