hundreds of thousands of textual changes found among our manuscripts, most of them are completely insignificant, immaterial, of no real importance for any-thing other than showing that scribes could not spell or keep focused any better than the rest of us” (2005a, 207). He explains, “Modern scholars have come to recognize that the scribes in Alexandria . . . were particularly scrupulous, even in these early centuries, and that there, in Alexandria, a very pure form of the text of the early Christian