[B-Greek] Bodmer P 72- Late 3rd Century of II Peter

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun Nov 23 10:07:54 EST 2003


My previous effort to forward this failed: our list-software will transmit
only plain-text, although the unicode may show up in the archives. The
point, however, is well taken: that OI quite commonly is copied as U by
scribes.

Forwarded for: WFWarren at aol.com
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 08:58:40 EST

I thought some info on the tendencies of OI to U change could be helpful.
These examples do use symbols and Greek that won't show well on some
screens.  The Greek is the SBL's SPIonic with the MS characters sometimes
in another font.  What is seen in a rapid search through our new Accordance
TC database module is that the shift is not unusual as a simple
orthographic change.  This is only a rapid search through Mt. 1-5:12 for
the orthographic changes in the 50 or so mss. that we used for the
database.  Maybe this is at least helpful in explaining why orthography was
posited as the reason for the change.


Matt 3:12-8     I      0           ptuon     å B C E K L M S ¼ 
 1 2 33 118
157 346 565 579 700 788 1071 1424 1582 f1 TR a b c f g1 q
          1      O      ptoion     Dsup W

Matt 4:3-55     I      0           artoi     å B C D K L M P S W 
 1 2 13
33 118 157 346 565 579 700 788 1071 1424 1582 f1 f13 TR a b c f g1 h k
          1      O      artu     E

Matt 4:21-88     I      0           diktua     å B C D E K L M S W ¼ 
 1 2c
13 33 118 157 346 565 579 700 788 1071 1424 1582 f1 f13 TR a b c f g1 h k
          1      O      diktoia     2*

Matt 5:12-24     I      0           poluj     å B C D E K M S W ¦ ¼ 
 1 2c
13 33 118 157 346 579 700 788 1424 1582 f1 f13 TR a b c f g1 h k q
          1      O      polloij     2*
          1      O      polluj     565
          1      O      poloij     1071

paz,

Bill Warren
Director of the Center for New Testament Textual Studies
Landrum P. Leavell, II, Professor of New Testament
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary

In a message dated 11/22/03 10:34:26 PM, mspalaeo at comcast.net writes:

>Dear fellow colleagues,
>
>Recently I've been comparing NT passages with other New Testament
>manuscripts using The Text of Early New Testament Greek Manuscripts
>(TENTGM), and some texts apparently have variant readings. One in
>particular I'd like to mention for others to review/comment on 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.


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Carl W. Conrad
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