Re-inking the Pen
Evidence from P. Oxy. 657 (P 13 ) Concerning Unintentional Scribal Errors
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19292598 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter M Head (0000-0003-3059-8659, Hill College), M Warren, Mary Florence Warren (Hill College) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 466-473 |
| Publication date | 1997-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Testament Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6885 • E-ISSN: 1469-8145 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s002868850001701x |
| OpenAlex | W2140930959 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
New Testament textual critics customarily discuss scribal errors under two headings: intentional errors and unintentional, accidental, or involuntary errors. Intentional errors are those made deliberately in order to improve or correct the text and involve corrections made to spelling or grammar, harmonisation to other passages (whether in the immediate context, in a parallel passage, or in an Old Testament source), and liturgical or theological enhancement. These might all be traced to the conscious activity of the scribe. 1 Unintentional errors, on the other hand, can be distinguished (in theory at least) as arising not from conscious scribal activity but from involuntary mistakes of eye, ear, memory, judgment, pen or speech. 2 These errors involve accidental additions, especially dittography (writing twice something that is only once in the exemplar), omissions, either by haplography (writing once something that is twice in the exemplar) or through homoioteleuton (a confusion due to similar endings of words or lines in the exemplar), or other sorts of confusions of letters or words. 3
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |