06_Biblica_1_D_Callan_Layout 1 05/11/12 12:20 Pagina 438 438 TERRANCE CALLAN Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas. Readers of this copy of 2 Peter would have been informed by the codex that they were reading part of the Bible. The scribe who wrote 2 Peter in Codex Sinaiticus was much more adept than the scribe of P72. Nevertheless, Codex Sinaiticus has more scribal errors than Codex Vaticanus. I count 55 itacisms and other errors based on replacing a letter or letters with similar sounding letters in 2 Peter 19. 1. The Work of the Scribe There is one case of misspelling where part of a word is omitted, namely hran instead of hmeran in 2,9. A n is mistakenly added to th in 1,7. In 2,18 the letters qh have been mistakenly added to the word mataiothtoj; there are dots over these letters, presumably to mark the error. In 2,12 gegenhmena may be a misspelling of gegennhmena, re- placing a double n with a single n. In 2,14 moixaliaj may be a misspelling of moixalidoj, perhaps based on misunderstanding the word as it was read. Although moixaliaj is found at this same point in two other manuscripts, namely A and 33, it does not seem to be part of the vocabulary of the Greek language. Twice a word is repeated by mistake: oud is repeated after akarpouj in 1,8 and eleuqerian is repeated in 2,19. In both cases there are dots over the repeated word. A number of other errors have been corrected in the manuscript: 1. The most extensive such correction is found in 1,12-13. The words kaiper idotaj kai esthrigmenouj en th paroush alhqia. dikaion de hgoumai, ef oson eimi en toutw tw skhnwmati, diegirin umaj were omitted from the original text and have been added at the bottom of the page with an arrow to indicate where they should be inserted. 2. A similar but less extensive correction is found in 3,12 where the words kai speudontaj were omitted and have been added in the margin with a tilde to indicate where they should be inserted. 3. In a rather large number of cases a missing letter or word has been written above the line. Thus the epi missing from xorhghsate has 19 See IV. Appendix B.