When Nonsense Makes Sense: Scribal Habits in the Space-intervals, Sense-pauses, and Other Visual Features in P46

This article explores the visual and paratextual features embedded in P46, and assesses how these reflect a microcosm of ancient book production enterprise as well as its eventual construal by the reading community that used it. Accordingly, it also suggests ways in which the copying habits of the s...

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Subtitles:Papers in honour of Roger Omanson, Part 2
Main Author: Ebojo, Edgar Battad (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2013
In: The Bible translator
Year: 2013, Volume: 64, Issue: 2, Pages: 128-150
Further subjects:B structure signals
B paratextual features
B space-intervals
B Scribal Habits
B readers’ aids
B sense-pauses
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Summary:This article explores the visual and paratextual features embedded in P46, and assesses how these reflect a microcosm of ancient book production enterprise as well as its eventual construal by the reading community that used it. Accordingly, it also suggests ways in which the copying habits of the scribe who produced this manuscript may be similarly unveiled through these features.
ISSN:2051-6789
Contains:Enthalten in: The Bible translator
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/2051677013491868