I don't mean this as an insult, but I don't think scholars have been very good at textual criticism. Maybe Zahn thinks it should not be done because she can't do it and she doesn't think other people can do it either. I see the point of accepting different variants as having their own value, but people do make mistakes too, so you can't just assume a change was made on purpose and has some meaning to it.
I do my own amateur textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible, and I don't follow the rules scholars follow because I don't think they work. I have come up with a few hundred verses where I divide the Hebrew letters into words differently to see what else the verses could say. I mean in verses that don't make sense as they are. I think that is also a possible way of handling textual criticism. Basically, try everything and see if anything else can also make sense. I don't think people can figure out the right answers, but a bunch of possible right answers could also be good.
I also think Bible translations should have more than one translation for verses that are difficult, so people can see the different possible things they can say.
I don't mean this as an insult, but I don't think scholars have been very good at textual criticism. Maybe Zahn thinks it should not be done because she can't do it and she doesn't think other people can do it either. I see the point of accepting different variants as having their own value, but people do make mistakes too, so you can't just assume a change was made on purpose and has some meaning to it.
I do my own amateur textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible, and I don't follow the rules scholars follow because I don't think they work. I have come up with a few hundred verses where I divide the Hebrew letters into words differently to see what else the verses could say. I mean in verses that don't make sense as they are. I think that is also a possible way of handling textual criticism. Basically, try everything and see if anything else can also make sense. I don't think people can figure out the right answers, but a bunch of possible right answers could also be good.
I also think Bible translations should have more than one translation for verses that are difficult, so people can see the different possible things they can say.