psalms singular readings and text-types from Dirk Jongkind - Masoretic Text - Vaticanus -

[Steven Avery]

Why is Zurich Psalter not mentioned??
Turicense

2110 - Bodmer Papyrus XXIV
and unlike, for example, the Bodmer papyrus XXIV (Rahlfs 2110), where poetic lines are only marked off by interpunction.

p. 165

Our knowledge of some of the text types is limited because of the pauciry
of evidence. In the case of Sinaiticus, it would have lieen informative to have
more manuscripts from what Rahlfs calls the upper and lower Egyptian
types. Moreover, there is a considerable group of singular readings in
Sinaiticus which Rahlfs labels as “= Masoretic Text." Quite often these
readings are not more than the removal of a single KAI, which, taken by
itself, can be as easily explained by transcriptional probability as by a
deliberate revision towards the Hebrew. However, a sizeable number of
non-singular readings are found that find additional support from the texts
of Origen and the Gallican Psalter, in the latter case not infrequently
through the Hexaplaric signs. Often the reading of Sinaiticus, supported by
these texts, is a reading found in the Masoretic Text, increasing the




p. 166

likelihood that when Sinaiticus is not supported by Origen and the Gallican Psalter but still has a Masoretic Text reading, this reading is also evidence of influence from the Masoretic Text. Because of this possible link between at least some of the “Masoretic Text" variants in Sinaiticus and a revision towards the Hebrew, we have omitted in our analysis all the variants below.57 The double line in the table separates the sections of scribe D above) and scribe A (below the line).

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p. 169

 

[Steven Avery]

P. 169-170

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orthography
Nonsense word forms

Leaps - p 175-177

p. 178

Add and Omit Verba Minora

Harmonisations p. 182-188

Editorial Readings p. 189

Nonsense Meanings p. 190

Subsitutions p. 191-196

Transpositions 196-198

Addition and Omissions of Words and Phrases - 198-199

Major Rewritings p. 199-200

Conclusions p. 200

Leaps backward were easier to detect than omissions that arose
because of a leap forward, especially when the leap back stretches over one
or more lines. Therefore, such leaps were often corrected. Scribe A twice
corrects a leap forward. One wonders whether he copies Psalms per poetic
line, as this would be in line with the high number of changes to verba
minora. Changes in this category are more likely to happen when larger
chunks of text have to be retained in the short-term memory than in text of
only a few words length.

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'Hie book of Psalms stands out among the other books of the Old
Testament (with the exception of Song of Songs) by the use of red ink for
the headings and numbers. Though this apparent care for the appearance of
Psalms is obviously a concern for the makers of Sinaiticus, this same care is
not extended to the actual text. No further checking of the text takes place
after it is first written down, and the result is that some obvious errors, such
as the missing heading of Ps 149, remain unnoticed.

p. 245

p. 250

 

[Steven Avery]

Two corrections in Psalms

Why doesn’t it indicate that there is a correction?
129,6

Where is 95 - if not in leaps?