(I am *not* saying that patterns of linguistic development aren't useful in dating texts, just that the specific ways I see this used, especially in liturgical scholarship, often baffles me)
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it is so comforting to have this instinct confirmed by somebody else whose judgment I trust, lol. I often feel like I must be missing something; that SURELY I'm misunderstanding the "logic"
I had to write a paper on church orders back in the day and I remember going to a prof and being like "is ... is this how scholars date things? why is it bad?"
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