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[AbramKJ]

Matthew, looks like I posted just after you did. Agreed--not all view conjectural emendation as a thing to avoid in a critical apparatus. When I reviewed the BHQ for Accordance, I found that John Hobbins did not appreciate the approach of the BHQ that I mentioned above. He has an interesting section called "In Defense of Conjectural Emendation" in his "Taking Stock of Biblia Hebraica Quinta" (pdf here).

Edited by AbramKJ, 13 March 2013 - 08:31 PM.

[Matthew Burgess]

To give another practical example, Gordon Fee, a scholar many would consider to be a "moderate" or "conservative" textual critic, has argued that Paul's comments on women in 1 Corinthians 14 are a later interpolation, despite the fact that their omission is not strongly supported by the manuscript tradition.  (One Latin manuscript, Codex Fuldensis, may have lacked the verses originally; they are added in the margin.  All other surviving manuscripts contain the verses, albeit with some variations.)  At the very least, this is close to a conjectural emendation.