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...John William Ellison, rector of the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany in Winchester, Mass.. has been working for several years at the monstrous task of comparing varying manuscripts of the Greek New Testament. All of the 4,600 known versions are copies (or copies of copies of copies) and few are exactly alike. The copyists added words and omitted words. They changed spellings to fit their times and even changed meanings to conform with current notions. They made all sorts of mistakes. Mr. Ellison's project has been to try to find out what variations went in "families...
...Ellison went to Harvard's Computation Laboratory to find whether the Mark IV could straighten out St. Luke. The mathematicians who serve the great computer decided that the Biblical problem was "realistic" and told Mr. Ellison how; to translate parts of the Gospel into mathematical language that the Mark IV would understand...
...Ellison's task is far from finished, but already he can say that 16 medieval manuscripts from widely separated libraries belong to the same "family." They were copied from the same lost manuscript or from each other. Sometime next year, with the help of Mark IV, he hopes to have all versions of St. Luke's Gospel arranged in families...
...privileges and opportunities, he also shares his headaches. Sa,ys a Negro newspaperman: "When the Negro had less freedom, he could blame the whites for whatever went wrong with him. Now it's harder for him to blame the whites for his failures." Says Negro Novelist Ralph (Invisible Man) Ellison: "After a man makes $10,000 or $20,000 a year, the magic fades. He is just another man with his problems." Most Negroes still wish they had that kind of problem, but many will agree with Ellison that "we are all Americans together, all modern men together...
...double Harris will team with Graven and Hockscher with Ellison...