Here we have placed all the omissions of significant portions of Holy Scripture in a chart, that is , all phrases, half-verses, and verses. These are the common omissions which probably originate in the various ancestors of Aleph/B.
Hort of course, follows them slavishly, even when many are obvious homoeoteleuton errors. (almost half of them). The SBL text is in the same column as Hort, and we only note in brackets where SBL has retained a phrase or two that the Westcott-Hort text deletes.
Out of 37 serious omissions of text, the SBL-GNT follows Hort in 34 of them, for a whopping 92% agreement in Mark.
Like Hort, the SBL gives no serious consideration to homoeoteleuton errors. It really is just the Aleph/B text, with a few minor modifications.
| Mark: | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| verse | chrs | omissions (varying letters per column) | WH | TYPE |
| 1:1 | 11 (7) | υιου του θεου | Om | (h.t.) |
| 1:14 | 12 | της βασιλειας | Om | -- |
| 1:42 | 13 | ειποντος αυτου | Om | (h.t.) |
| 3:5 | 12 | υγιης ως η αλλη | Om | -- |
| 3:15 | 22 (11) | θεραπευειν τ ας νοσους και | Om | (h.t.) |
| 6:11 | 74 6x12 5x15 4x18 3x24 | αμην λεγω υμιν ανε κτοτερον εσται σο δομοις η γομορροι ς εν ημερα κρισεως η τη πολει εκεινη | Om | -- |
| 6:33 | 20 | και συνηλθο ν προς αυτον | Om | (h.t.) |
| 6:36 | 10 (+3) | ουκ εχουσιν | Om | (h.t.) |
| 7:2 | 9 | εμεμψαντο | Om | -- |
| 7:8 | 61 6x10 4x15 3x20 | βαπτισμους ξεστω ν και ποτηριων και α λλα παρομοια τοιαυ τα πολλα ποιειτε | Om | -- |
| 7:16 | 26 2x13 | ει τις εχει ωτα α κουειν ακουετω | Om | -- |
| 8:9 | 10 | οι φαγοντες | Om | -- |
| 8:26 | 21 | μηδε ειπης τ ινι εν τη κωμη | Om | (h.a.) |
| 9:29 | 10 | και νηστεια | Om | (h.a.) |
| 9:38 | 18 | ος ουκ ακολουθει ημιν | Om | (ed.) |
| 9:44 | 44 4x11 3x15 | οπου ο σκωληξ αυτ ων ου τελευτα και τ ο πυρου σβεννυται | Om | -- |
| 9:45-6 | 62 | εις το πυρ το ασβεστ ον οπου ο σκωληξ αυ των ου τελευτα και το πυρ ου σβεννυται | Om | |
| 9:49 | 26 2x13 | και πασα θυσια α λι αλισθησεται | Om | (h.t.) |
| 10:7 | 38 2x19 | και προσκολληθησεται προς την γυναικα αυτου | Om | (h.t.) |
| 10:21 | 14 | αρας τον σταυρον | Om | -- |
| 10:24 | 29 2x15 | τους πεποιθοτας επι τοις χρημασιν | Om | -- |
| 11:8 | 23 2x12 | και εστρωννυο ν εις την οδον | Om | (h.t.) |
| 11:10 | 15 | εν ονοματι κυριου | Om | -- |
| 11:23 | 8 | ο εαν ειπη | Om | -- |
| 11:26 | 70 4x18 5x14 | ει δε υμεις ουκ αφ ιετε ουδε ο πατηρ υμων ο εν τοις ουρ ανοις αφησει τα π αραπτωματα υμων | Om | (h.t.) |
| 12:23 | 13 | οταν αναστωσιν | (In) | -- |
| 12:29 | 15 | πασων των εντολων | Om | -- |
| 12:30 | 15 | αυτη πρωτη εντολη | Om | -- |
| 12:33 | 17 | και εξ ολης της ψυχης | Om | (h.a.) |
| 13:11 | 12 | μηδε μελετατε | Om | (h.t.) |
| 13:14 | 27 2x13 | το ρηθεν υπο δαν ιηλ του προφητου | Om | (h.t.*) |
| 14:19 | 15 | και αλλος μητι εγω | Om | (h.t.) |
| 14:27 | 20 2x10 | εν εμοι εν τη νυκτι ταυτη | Om | (h.a.) |
| 14:68 | 18 | και αλεκτωρ εφωνησεν | (In) | (h.t.) |
| 14:70 | 20 2x10 | και η λαλια σ ου ομοιαζει | (In) | (h.t.) |
| 15:3 | 22 2x11 | αυτος δε ουδε ν απεκρινατο | Om | -- |
| 15:28 | 46 3x15 | και επληρωθη η γραφ η η λεγουσα και μετ α ανομων ελογισθη | Om | (h.t.) |
Of special interest, is the fact that most of the omissions, even of long passages, happen to be multiples of key column-widths, probably reflecting the lost master-copies used to make this text, and create the opportunity for the obvious proliferation of stupid accidental omissions, which went uncorrected in this Alexandrian branch of transmission.
We've listed some of the ways the longer omissions can be divided up into lines.
We can only assume that for some reason the early scribes responsible for these texts just didn't do a very good job proof-reading their own work.
mr.scrivener
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