05-09-2016, 02:53 PM
There is this similar text in Leviticus 2:13a.
Codex Vaticanus (B/03) and the Sinaitic Palimpsest (SyS) have only the first part of Mark 9:49, while several early Vetus Latina MSS, such as Codex Bezae (D/05) have only the second part. So,
The reading of Peshitta is a combination of these two very similar statements. Since the two statements are so similar it would be easy to explain at least two scribes' omissions of the statements by means of homoiteleuton and homoiarcton (particularily if you are a peshitta primacist :) ). Even simpler seems to me the explanation (my idea today so take it with a grain of salt) that B and SyS have the original reading and that scribes erroneously recognized it as a quotation from Leviticus and changed the wording a little to make it confirm to their version of the OT (Hebrew, LXX or Peshitta). Later, scribes comparing several manuscripts would have encountered two slightly different versions and transmitted both to be on the safe side.
Perhaps this article will give some clues as well:
http://evangelicaltextualcriticism.blogs...-salt.html
7a1 Wrote:·ܘܟܠܗ ܩܘܪܒܢܐ ܕܣܡܝܕܟ ܒܡܠܚܐ ܬܡܠܘܚ
Codex Vaticanus (B/03) and the Sinaitic Palimpsest (SyS) have only the first part of Mark 9:49, while several early Vetus Latina MSS, such as Codex Bezae (D/05) have only the second part. So,
Quote:B: πας γαρ πυρι αλισθησεται ................. D: πασα γαρ θυσια αλι αλισθησεται
The reading of Peshitta is a combination of these two very similar statements. Since the two statements are so similar it would be easy to explain at least two scribes' omissions of the statements by means of homoiteleuton and homoiarcton (particularily if you are a peshitta primacist :) ). Even simpler seems to me the explanation (my idea today so take it with a grain of salt) that B and SyS have the original reading and that scribes erroneously recognized it as a quotation from Leviticus and changed the wording a little to make it confirm to their version of the OT (Hebrew, LXX or Peshitta). Later, scribes comparing several manuscripts would have encountered two slightly different versions and transmitted both to be on the safe side.
Perhaps this article will give some clues as well:
http://evangelicaltextualcriticism.blogs...-salt.html