06_Biblica_1_D_Callan_Layout 1 05/11/12 12:20 Pagina 430 430 TERRANCE CALLAN not a biblical codex. As the name suggests, the Bodmer Miscellaneous Codex contains a miscellany of eleven writings, probably written by four different scribes, bound together in the following order: Nativity of Mary 3 Corinthians 11th Ode of Solomon Jude Melito, Homily on the Passover Fragment of a liturgical hymn Apology of Phileas LXX Psalms 33,2–34,16 1-2 Peter Readers of this early copy of 2 Peter would not have been in- formed by the codex in which they found it that they were reading part of the Bible. They may have known in other ways that this text was an authoritative writing for the Christian church, but they read it in an anthology of various writings. Some of them are biblical writ- ings (Jude, Psalms 33,2–34,16, 1-2 Peter), but others are not. 1. The Work of the Scribe P72 is the name given to the texts of Jude, 1 and 2 Peter that are part of this codex. All were written by the same scribe. This scribe was much less skilled than the scribes who wrote the other early copies of 2 Peter we are considering. Someone who recognized the scribe’s many errors would have received the impression that the writer of 2 Peter was not highly literate in Greek. I count 131 itacisms and other errors based on replacing a letter or letters with similar sounding letters 8. There are also cases of simple misspellings, where a single letter is used in place of a double letter (Gomoraj 2,6; erusato 2,7; fu- ) lasesqai 3,17) or a double letter used in place of a single letter (mallista 2,10; Ballaam 2,15; a)sselgia 2,8.18). Three times a j is added to the end of a word (epeiqumeiaj 2,10; sunestwshj 8 See IV. Appendix A. These and other scribal errors have been catalogued by M. TESTUZ (ed.), Papyrus Bodmer VII – IX (Geneva 1959) 29-34; S. KUBO, P 72 and the Codex Vaticanus (SD 27; Salt Lake City, UT 1965) 8-30; ROYSE, Scribal Habits, 545-614.