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544 of 1 Samuel
24–2 Samuel 1
(4–5 CE) 361
P.Vindob. Gr.
29274 of Psalm
32LXX (4–5 CE)
P.Oxy. 6.845 of
Psalms 68–70
LXX (4–5 CE)
P.Oxy. 24.2386
of Psalms 83–84
LXX (4–5 CE)
P.Damasc. VII of
Canticles 2, 5 (4–
5 CE)
Cod. Cambridge
of 2 Kings 21–23
(Aquila; 5 CE)
+ high dots
and dicola,
also after
groups of
words
C spaces + low
dots with an
apostrophe
— — — k(uvrio)" —
C — — — — no evidence stichoi
S spaces + two
oblique
strokes
— — — k(uvrio)" stichoi
C — — — x no evidence stichoi
C some spaces
+ high dots,
also after
groups of
words
A. Indication of small sense units (verses)
a. Small spaces without additional indications
open (rare) — — paleo-Hebrew
Tetragrammaton
with
identical yod
and waw
The earliest sound evidence from the second century BCE onwards for the indication of small sense units in Scripture
texts (verses) pertains not to Hebrew manuscripts, but to the Targumim and several early Greek sources. See ch.
5a2.
The use of spacing for the indication of small sense units (verses) was a natural development in the tradition of
Scripture-writing, both in Hebrew and in the translations, as larger units (sections) were likewise indicated with
spacing. The size of the space indicating new sections was always larger than that indicating verses, which usually
equaled a single letter-space, and sometimes slightly more.
A small group of early Greek texts indicated the ends of verses, and sometimes also groups of words, with
small spaces without additional notations. In all these texts, with the exception of hand B of 8H≥evXIIgr in
Zechariah (end of 1 BCE), word-division was not indicated with spaces. Since almost all these texts are early, they
undoubtedly reflect early Jewish traditions. Some of these texts reflect early Jewish revisions (P.Fouad 266a–c,
8H≥evXIIgr), while others probably reflect the tradition of the Old Greek translation (4QpapLXXLev b ,
4QLXXNum), different from the text contained in other witnesses. The nature of P.Oxy. 3522 is unclear.
P.Rylands Greek 458 of Deuteronomy (2 BCE): after Deut 24:1 (+ high dot); 25:2; 26:17, 18; as well as after
groups of words. 362
P.Fouad 266a–c of Genesis and Deuteronomy (1 BCE) consisting of three different scrolls (Aly–Koenen, Three
Rolls): after verses, and sometimes also after groups of words: P.Fouad 266a of Genesis (942; middle of 1 BCE);
P.Fouad 266b of Deuteronomy (848 [middle of 1 BCE]), in the latter case, e.g. after Deut 22:8; 28:67; 32:19, 25, as
well as after 28:9a, 65a, but not after Deut 28:65; 31:25; 32:46; P.Fouad 266c of Deuteronomy 10–11, 31–33 (847
[second half of 1 BCE]). See Dunand, Papyrus grecs, Texte et planches; Aly–Koenen, Three Rolls, p. 5, n. 24 and p.
7, n. 32; Oesch, Petucha und Setuma, 297–8.
4QpapLXXLev b of Leviticus 2–5 (1 BCE): after Lev 3:11; 4:26.
361B. G. Wright, “A Greek Fragment of the Books of Samuel: Beinecke Library MS 544 (Ra 846),” Textus 17 (1994) 79–
100.
362Roberts, Two Biblical Papyri (see n. 355) with plates. A more complete photograph is found in E. Würthwein, The Text
of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids, Mich. 1979) 177.
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