You didn't give me a link! You expect me to do looking stuff up after a hard morning of cleaning up library catalog records? If you check my last post on the WFTD thread, you will see how fried my brains are.
But always room for a little more pedantry. I can't help it.
Also, part of the problem is based on WHY the guys who edited the Alexandrian texts chose the texts they way they did. There is some feeling that they went looking for old texts that didn't agree with the majority, to shore up their bias. Wasn't there, don't know if this was in the back of their minds, but it wouldn't be the first time spin has been used to make a point.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1556759/posts?page=5213#5213
Sorry - it was current when I first mentioned it :-).
There was plenty of conflict between Judean Jews and Diaspora Jews in the relevant time period, so I think it's likely that *everyone* involved had an agenda ... just as King James had an agenda in his day, and many of us do today.
I think it's pretty meaningless, except as a historical curiousity and a psychological exercise. People are risking their lives to get the Scriptures in Hmong and Farsi and that awful language they speak in Afghanistan - think they care about the niceties of Jacobean English usage?