Today's lesson is a brief one. It is Jude 2 which reads as follows in the NA28: ἔλεος ὑμῖν καὶ εἰρήνη καὶ ἀγάπη πληθυνθείη. We will then see the text in p72, B, and א. Click on each image to enlarge it.
1. Find the initial word ελεος in the middle of the first line of p72.
2. Both p72 and א again evidence itacism in omitting the ε in πληθυνθείη.
Note that the א scribe omitted the theta and then added it back in. However, he may have planned it that way to get the iota on the same line!
3. Note in p72 how similar the two etas and the nu are in the second line in the word εἰρήνη. Note in p72 how uncials are starting to give away to cursives with the scribe's combining the alpha and iota in the καὶ at the end of line 1.
4. In א notice the rough breathing mark over the initial upsilon in ὑμῖν. These began to be added in the Hellenistic Period (300BC-300AD). The breathing marks and accents were added to Vaticanus later.
Since there is not too much earthshaking here, I will add as a comment below a list of Jude's triads, like the three virtues in this verse.
- What a treat. I feel like I am in a textual studies class. Would like to copy over, and document on a reference manager!
- I don't see where Sinaiticus added the ε back in? I just see the θ immediately before the ι. Am I missing what you are saying? This is a great idea for a forum! Thanks!
- Well put, Jason. You have picked up an error. I meant to write that he first omitted a theta and then added it back in, or maybe intended it to be that way. I will try to make that correction. DrV
