One of the most vexed questions of textual criticism, and one which divides scholars more perhaps than any other, is the question to what extent admitted imperfections and inconsistencies may properly be left in a text as due to the default of an author rather than of a scribe or compositor.
compositor הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד