06_Biblica_1_D_Callan_Layout 1 05/11/12 12:20 Pagina 431 431 READING THE EARLIEST COPIES OF 2 PETER 3,5; planhj 3,17). A final n is omitted from hdonh in 2,13; a final j is omitted from alhqou in 2,22; and a final j is substituted for n in trufhj in 2,13. There are a number of instances where a syllable is repeated by mistake: 1. kai before kaiper (1,12) 2. ei before eidotaj (1,12) 3. tou repeated (1,14) 4. sa repeated in ebasasanizein (2,8) 5. kai repeated (2,12) In 3,3 a syllable may have been omitted by mistake, i.e., en omit- ted before enpegmonh. Finally, a number of other errors have been corrected in the man- uscript 9. There is a dot to mark the error above the k of kgnwsin in 1,5 and the k of diekgeirin in 1,13; in the former case, the k has also been erased but is still visible. Likewise, there are dots to mark the errors over the q of apofqeugontaj in 2,18 and the second k of koskmoj in 3,6. In a number of cases, a letter has been erased and another letter written in its place. Thus, in 1,7 there is an erasure under a l in filadelfia; under the a of toiasde in 1,17; under the wj of epeilusewj in 1,20; in 2,5 a letter has been erased be- tween all and ogdoon; there is an erasure under the hj of entolhj in 3,2; and one after the g of sthrigmou in 3,17. In a number of cases a missing letter or word has been written above or at the end of the line. Thus in 1,8 tou seems to have been added at the end of the line after th; the u missing from ouk has been added above it in 2,4; what looks like eij has been added above something scratched out before to digma in 2,6; the h missing from threin has been added above it in 2,9; what looks like the second e missing from eleusontai has been added above it in 3,3; the lo missing from boulomenoj and the ti missing from tinaj have been added above them in 3,9; umaj has been added after uparxein in 3,11; and w has been added above a scratched out letter in amwmhtoi in 9 ROYSE, Scribal Habits, 559, counts 22 corrections by the original hand in 2 Peter, but I cannot find the correction he mentions in 2,4b. Perhaps this is the correction he mentions elsewhere in 2,5. ROYSE, Scribal Habits, 569, identifies two corrections by a second hand, namely in 1,8 and 3,16.