Dittography is my favorite form of scribal error, because the act of it is fun to see and the name of it is fun to say
Sure, of course you've given a person accused of graverobbing "hospitaliatem" - but have you given them "hospitaltalitatem"? 📜⚰️⛏️💀✨ A lovely bit of dittography in this manuscript of the Salic laws (§55.5), Paris, BNF, MS Lat. 18237, fol. 89v, l. b6
This is a transposition of ע and either r->dr (near dittography) or dr->r (near haplography). Hebrew r and d are so similar that they are often confused, but this is a particularly clear case of that confusion extending to haplography or dittography. 3/3
Here's a fun one: near synonyms due to near #haplography#dittography#Genesis#HebrewBible#TextualCriticism
This OG retroversion suggests that maybe MT's redundancy wasn't dittography, but misreading עלי רבים in light of שכרו and למען, and Pesh might have a conflated reading, with ܠܡܩܛܠܢܝ = Hebrew להרגי (cf. Neh. 6:10) ~ רבים by b/g and h/m confusions, a transposition, and +/- l. 7/7 #HebrewBible
To me, the redundancy looks like a dittography of שכרו למען, with the w/r transposition and הוא subsequently inserted to soften the repetition. How can we explain the OG reading? In Ezra 3:12, ὄχλος = MT רַבִּ֛ים, so we might retrovert ἐπ’ ἐμὲ ὄχλον into Hebrew as עלי רבים 5/? #HebrewBible
This might look more like homoioteleuton, when omitted text ends with what precedes it, so the scribe's eye jumped from one occurrence of הנער to the next. But homoioteleuton results in an omission, which cannot explain the awkward second נער in MT's text (unless that's a secondary dittography) 14/?
New words so far today from _Charity & Poverty in Roman Palestine_: - usucaption - dittography I have taken 8k words of notes on this book alone. Damn it's useful.
Dittography. Fuck.