SCRIBAL PRACTICES AND APPROACHE S ... - Emanuel Tov

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P.Bodl. Ms. Gr. Bibl. f. 4 of Exodus 9–10 (4 CE): spaces with low and high dots.
P.Oxy. 10.1225 of Leviticus 16 (4 CE): spaces with high and low dots.
P.Rylands 1 of Deuteronomy 23 (4 CE): spaces with median dots.
P.Oxy. 9.1168 of Joshua 4–5 (4 CE): spaces with high dots.
P.Oslo 11, frg. 1 of Isaiah 42, 52, 53 (4 CE): spaces with high dots.
P.Genève Gr. 252 of Jeremiah 5–6 (4 CE): spaces with high dots.
P.Antinoopolis 10 of Ezekiel 33–34 (4 CE): inconsistently placed high dots, sometimes in spaces, but also
when no space was left.
P.Oxy. 15.1779 of Psalm 1 (4 CE): spaces with high dots, also after groups of words.
P.Chester Beatty XIV of Psalms 31, 26, 2 LXX (4 CE): spaces with dicola, also after groups of words.
P.Vindob. Gr. 26205 of Psalm 34 LXX (4 CE): hemistichs with commas.
P.Erlangen 2 of Genesis 41 (4–5 CE): spaces with high and low dots.
P.Yale Beinecke 544 of 1 Samuel 24–2 Samuel 1 (4–5 CE): minute spaces with high dots and dicola, also after
groups of words.
P.Vindob. Gr. 29274 of Psalm 32 LXX (4–5 CE): spaces + low dots with an apostrophe.
P.Oxy. 24.2386 of Psalms 83–84 LXX (4–5 CE): spaces with two oblique strokes after each stich.
Cod. Cambridge of 2 Kings 21–23 (Aquila; 5 CE): spaces with high dots, also after groups of words.
c. High dots and/or dicola superimposed on texts written without spaces
Many of the high dots and dicola were superimposed, often inelegantly, on texts that were initially written
continuously. The secondary status of these interpunction signs is evident from the lack of space left and often also
from the color of ink of the dots.
P.Scheide and P.Chester Beatty IX (967) of Ezekiel (early 3 CE), which originally formed one scroll,
systematically indicated the end of each verse, as well as segments of verses, with dots in different positions (high
dots, median dots, and dots on the line), apparently without assigning a different meaning to each one (Johnson,
Scheide, 16–17).
P.Chester Beatty VII of Ezekiel 11–17 (3 CE): high dots and strokes superimposed on a running text without
spaces.
P.Merton 2 = P.Chester Beatty VII (965) of Isaiah 8–60 (3 CE): usually high dots and dicola super-imposed on
a running text.
Pap. W (Freer) of the Minor Prophets (3 CE) indicates dots at the ends of verses as well as after groups of words.
All of them were probably inserted after the completion of the writing.
Dots or dicola appear in many of the texts listed in the previous section, sometimes in existing spaces, and
often when no space had been left (see the table). In this regard, Psalms manuscripts form a special group since the
graphic indicators are found only at the ends of the lines when the texts are arranged stichographically, and the
secondary nature of such indicators cannot be determined easily.
A special case are a few papyri in which high dots were superimposed on the text after each syllable as scribal
exercises: P.Rendel Harris 166 of Exodus 22–23 (3 CE); P.Laur. Inv. 140 (34) of Psalm 1 (3–4 CE); P.Lit. London
207 of Psalms 11–16 (3–4 CE). Similar exercises are also known for literary texts.
d. Continuous writing involving no notation for the indication of verse endings
The scribes of some texts did not indicate verse endings. Although in principle such texts could reflect the first stage
of the Greek translation, it appears that they reflect a secondary development since the earliest available evidence
(group a above) reflects spacing between the verses.
P.Oxy. 4.656 of Genesis 14–27 (2 or 3 CE)
P.Coll. Horsley (Deissmann) of Exodus 4 (2 or 3 CE)
P.Chester Beatty VI (963) of Numbers and Deuteronomy (2 or 3 CE)
P.Oxy. 7.1007 of Genesis 2–3 (3 CE) (leather)
P.Heidelberg 290 of Leviticus 19 (3 CE)
P.Lit. London 204 of Psalm 2 (3 CE)
P.Schøyen 2648 of Joshua 9–11 (early 3 CE)
P.Chester Beatty V (962) of Genesis (second half of 3 CE)
P.Vindob. Gr. 39777 of Psalms 68, 80 LXX (3–4 CE; Symmachus)
P.Chester Beatty IV (961) of Genesis (4 CE)