I cannot remember for the life of me what it is called when a scribe makes a mistake because he copies one word that looks a lot like another word. Anyone?
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homoeoteleuton is same ending
homoarchton is same beginning
Awesome, thanks. I think homoarchton is a good case of what I am noticing here.
Correction: should be homoeoarchton.
Bryan,
Thanks for the correction! I would have just followed you right into that misspelling! 🙂
Both of these answers appear to be not quite right:
Homoioteleuton and Homoioarcton are both errors of omission caused respectively by similar line endings or line beginnings. Often however, Homoioarcton are really just the same case as Homoioteleuton, but with the text shifted on the lines (rollover) on a different copy than the extant one.
Substitution of one spelling of another can be due to or caused by Itacism or by local spelling conventions or by a scribe altering the case/voice/tense/gender of a word either unintentionally or deliberately. These would be substitutions, not omissions.
Repetition by accident (double-copying) is called Dittography.
For the 50 major cases of homoioteleuton in the NT at a glance, go here:
http://adultera.awardspace.com/AF/homoioteleuton_files/index.html
For the textual evidence and arguments, go here:
http://adultera.awardspace.com/AF/Omissions.html
For the full monty on the evidence for the authenticity of John 7:53-8:11, go to the world’s largest database on the PA here:
The Pericope Adultera Website
Brew a pot of java because there are 40,000 pages of evidence there.
Of particular interest will be the NEW evidence (Chiastic, structural) showing that the PA is integral to John, authentic and written by John the Evangelist:
http://adultera.awardspace.com/INT-EV/index.html
peace
Nazaroo