06_Biblica_1_D_Callan_Layout 1 05/11/12 12:20 Pagina 440 440 TERRANCE CALLAN 6. In 2,10 epiqumiaj has been corrected to epiqumia by putting a line through the j; in 2,21 the letters si and a line indicating a final n have been added at the end of a line after epignou to complete the word. Likewise in 2,22 de has been added at the end of a line after sumbebhken. The scribe of 2 Peter in Sinaiticus is the one identified by Con- stantin Tischendorf as scribe A, an identification confirmed by sub- sequent investigations 20. Two other scribes also contributed to Sinaiticus (though not 2 Peter), namely Tischendorf’s scribes B and D. A is less adept than D, but more adept than B. Milne and Skeat say that scribe D is “the most correct, who alone reaches the standard of good literary papyri”, and that “Scribe A is markedly inferior to D” 21. Dirk Jongkind says, “The work of scribe A and scribe B is not of a very high quality”. And he affirms the words of Westcott and Hort about the Sinaiticus New Testament as accurately describing the work of scribe A, namely that it shows “all the ordinary lapses due to rapid and careless transcription” and a “bold and rough manner of transcrip- tion” 22. In some contrast to the scribal abilities of A and B, according to Jongkind, “the bookhand of all three scribes is well formed, regular, and fairly standardized among the three” 23. The corrections described in 1 and 2 above derive from the cor- rector called C by Tischendorf and subsequent investigators. This derivation is shown in both cases by the way the place of the cor- rection in the text is indicated. The use of two arrows pointing in the same direction, one at the point of insertion, the other next to the text to be inserted, is characteristic of C corrections written in upper or lower margins. Likewise the use of two wavy lines, one at the point of insertion, the other next to the text to be inserted, is characteristic of C corrections written in the side margins 24. The C 20 See H.J.M. MILNE ‒ T.C. SKEAT (with contributions by D. COCKERELL), Scribes and Correctors of the Codex Sinaiticus (London 1938) 18-29; D. JONGKIND, Scribal Habits of Codex Sinaiticus (Piscataway, NJ 2007) 9-18, 26-27. 21 The first quotation is from Scribes and Correctors, 53; the second from page 54. 22 The first quotation is from Scribal Habits, 253; Jongkind quotes WESTCOTT ‒ HORT on page 255. He quotes from B.F. WESTCOTT ‒ F.J. A. HORT, The New Testament in the Original Greek. Introduction, Appendix (London 21896) 246-247. 23 JONGKIND, Scribal Habits, 59. 24 MILNE ‒ SKEAT, Scribes and Correctors, 46.