[B-Greek] Bodmer P 72- Late 3rd Century of II Peter
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lisistrata at navegalia.com
Sun Nov 23 02:22:30 EST 2003
el 23/11/03 05:33, MSandberg en mspalaeo at comcast.net escribió:
> Dear fellow colleagues,
> One in particular I'd like to mention
> is the NT II Peter 3:16 passage that reads kai
> tas loipas graphas (other/remaining writings) whereas the Bodmer P72 late
> third century Greek manuscript reads kai tas lupas graphas. Of course error
> notations are made off to the right hand margin concerning this manuscript,
> but in verse 16 Comfort and Barrett (TENTGM) do not reference anything
> concerning an error in the margins between loipas and lupas that I can see. I
> found this to be odd.
>
> I believe this to be an intentional scribal regiment more than at
> typographical error in the book's edition mainly for the reason that I don't
> see how an omicron and iota uncial be misconstrued as an upsilon. I'm open for
> suggestions/corrections by someone who has another example for comparison.
> What's more the lexical meanings as you all know of loipas (rest/remaining)
> and lupas (pain/grief) are different as night is to day (see BDAG). lupas in
> view of the whole reading of verse 16 would seem textually bizarre.
>
Though I have no experience with greek manuscripts I think that writing
lupas instead of loipas is an unintentional scribe error that can easily be
explained if we have in mind that in third century (and long before) oi and
u were pronounced exactly the same. This has produced, in fact, lots of
errors in ancient manuscripts but I think these errors don't use to be
notated in modern editions because they are considered irrelevant.
Regards,
David Lucas
Salamanca, España
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