Steven Avery
Administrator
The latest edition of Scribal Skips, now at 2000 words that have evidence of having fallen out of the Masoretic and UBS editions from homoioteleuton, should be available within the next two weeks. A few more text critical articles were added in the footnotes in support of the longer readings, spanning from Olshausen (1851) to Malik (2022). H. A. W. Meyer recognized a number of cases of homoioteleuton in the 1880s. For Matthew 15:6_τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ[ἢ τὴν μητέρα αὑτοῦ]_·he writes, “Omitted in consequence of homoeoteleuton.” For verse 16 of Matthew 20 (see also Gurry, On Not Preferring) he notes “... due rather to the simple homoeoteleuton_ἔσχαTOI ...ἐκλεκTOI.”In Luke 19:5, “the transcriber passed at once from_EIδεν_to_EIπεν.”For John 7:46_ἄνθρωπος[ὡς οὗτος ὁ ἄνθρωπος], “... how easily might their omission have occurred looking from the first_ἄνθρ._at once to the second!” Some GNTs that have the longer reading are footnoted, taken from an assemblage of 21 editions, viz. Alford, Berean Greek Bible, Complutensian Polyglot, Pickering, Goodrich-Kohlenberger, Matthaei, Nestle-Aland, Patriarchal, Robinson-Pierpont, Society of Biblical Literature, Scholz, Scrivener, Souter, Solid Rock, Tischendorf, Tregelles, Tyndale House, United Bible Societies, Vogels, von Soden, and Weymouth. Hopefully, Bible students and translators will find most examples worthy of restoration. The Bible reader deserves better.