06_Biblica_1_D_Callan_Layout 1 05/11/12 12:20 Pagina 432 432 TERRANCE CALLAN 3,14. There are also some other kinds of corrections. In 2,16 c ap- pears to have been written over some other letter in elegcin. Like- wise, in 2,19 d has been written over a z in douloi. In 2,17 the o of upo has been crossed out. Finally, in 3,16 taij has been written after the last line, completing the word autaij left incomplete at the end of the last line. Another thing contributing to the impression that the scribe was not highly literate in Greek is the presence of a marginal note in Coptic. This is found in 2,22 where the Greek word alhqou has the Coptic gloss PMEI. All of this shows that the scribe of P72 was not adept. James Royse quotes Carlo Martini as saying: “the true and proper errors of the scribe are rather numerous and demonstrate a rather mediocre diligence and a quite uncertain knowledge of the Greek language” 10. Readers of P72 might not only have concluded that its scribe was not expert, but also have seen 2 Peter itself as a document mani- festing a low level of literacy. The Bodmer Miscellaneous Codex was found, along with other manuscripts, in a jar near Dishna in Egypt, not far from a Pachomian monastery 11. The manuscripts may also have been written in that area. 2. The Meaning of 2 Peter in Papyrus 72 I will discuss five ways in which the distinctive features of 2 Peter in P72 have the effect of giving the letter a meaning significantly dif- ferent from that of the probable original text. a) Jesus as divine The most important distinctive feature of 2 Peter in P72 is its pre- sentation of Jesus as divine to a greater degree than is done by the probable original text of 2 Peter. This occurs most clearly in 1,2; the version of this verse in P72 does not include kai. The verse speaks 10 ROYSE, Scribal Habits, 580, quoting MARTINI, Beati Petri Apostoli Epis- tulae, xviii. 11 WASSERMAN, “Papyrus 72 and the Bodmer Miscellaneous Codex”, 32.