SCRIBAL PRACTICES AND APPROACHE S ... - Emanuel Tov

Scribal Practices and Approaches Reflected in the Texts from the Judean Desert 297
P.Amherst 1 of Genesis 1 (4 CE) (Aquila)
P.Oxy. 9.1167 of Genesis 31 (4 CE)
P.Grenfell 5 of Ezekiel 5–6 (4 CE)
P.Oxy. 15.1779 of Psalm 1 (4 CE)
P.Flor. B.L. 1163 of Job 1–2 (4 CE)
P.Vindob. Gr 26205 of Psalm 34 LXX (4 CE)
P.Oxy. 6.845 of Psalms 68–70 LXX (4 CE)
When the text is laid out in stichoi, the layout renders the need for explicit verse-indications superfluous:
e. Presumed development
P.Bodl. MS. bibl. Gr. 5 of Psalms 48–49 (late 1 or early 2 CE)
P.Antinoopolis 7 of Psalms LXX (2 CE)
P.Leipzig 170 of Psalm 118 LXX (2–3 CE)
P.Vindob. Gr. 26035B of Psalms 68–69 LXX (3 CE)
P.Alex. 240 (PSI 921) of Psalm 77 LXX (3 CE)
P.Berlin Inv. 21265 of Psalm 144 LXX (3 CE)
P.Antinoopolis 8 of Proverbs 5–20 (3 CE)
P.Laur. Inv. 140 (34) of Psalm 1 (3–4 CE)
P.Oxy. 10.1226 of Psalms 7–8 LXX (3–4 CE)
P.Lit. London 207 of Psalms 11–16 (3–4 CE)
P.Bonn Coll. P147v of Psalm 30 LXX (3–4 CE)
P.Flor. B.L. 1371 of Psalm 36 LXX (4 CE)
P.Leipzig 39 of Psalms 30–55 LXX (4 CE)
P.Vindob. Gr. 35781 of Psalm 77 LXX (4 CE)
P.Berlin 18196 of Canticles 5–6 (4 CE)
P.Oxy. 24.2386 of Psalms 83–84 LXX (4–5 CE)
As the earliest available Greek sources reflect spaces between verses (group a), this practice probably reflects the
oldest form of the Greek translation in which verse division was indicated, possibly in the original translation itself.
See ch. 5a2. According to this assumption, the continuous writing of the Greek texts as recorded in group d is
secondary. Over the course of time, graphic signs were added in these spaces in accord with the Greek manuscript
writing tradition (groups b and c). See further the summary of Greek scribal traditions in ch. 5a2.
According to Revell, the spacing and high dots in the middle of a verse in early Greek manuscripts reflected,
though not consistently, the Hebrew accent system known from the later Masoretic sources regarding disjunctive
accents. 363 A similar claim was made throughout the study of Korpel–de Moor, Structure. However, while this
claim can be made for such probable Jewish sources as:
P.Rylands Greek 458 of Deuteronomy (2 BCE)
P.Fouad 266a–c of Genesis and Deuteronomy (middle 1 BCE)
4QLXXNum of Numbers 3–4 (1 BCE)
8H≥evXIIgr hand A (end of 1 BCE)
P.Oxy. 50.3522 of Job 42 (1 CE),
it is unlikely for such non-Jewish sources as:
P.Scheide + P.Chester Beatty IX (967) of Ezekiel (early 3 CE)
Pap. W (Freer) of the Minor Prophets (3 CE)
P.Antinoopolis 9 of Proverbs 2–3 (3 CE)
P.Berlin 14039 of Exodus 34–35 (3–4 CE)
P.Oxy. 11.1352 of Psalms 82–83 LXX (early 4 CE) (leather)
P.Hamb. Ibscher 5 of Genesis 41 (4 CE)
Codex St. Cath. of Genesis 27–28 (4 CE)
P.Oxy. 15.1779 of Psalm 1 (4 CE)
P.Chester Beatty XIV of Psalms 31, 26, 2 LXX (4 CE)
363 E. J. Revell, “The Oldest Evidence for the Hebrew Accent System,” BJRL 54 (1971–2) 214–22; idem, “Biblical
Punctuation and Chant in the Second Temple Period,” JSJ 7 (1976) 181–98.