Dittography

Dittography is the accidental, erroneous act of repeating a letter, word, phrase or combination of letters by a scribe or copyist.[1] The term is used in the field of textual criticism. The opposite phenomenon, in which a copyist omits text by skipping from a word or phrase to a similar word or phrase further on, is known as haplography.

Not to be confused with ditto machine.

Example

Papyrus 98 in Rev 1:13 has περιεζωσμμενον instead of περιεζωσμενον (doubled μ). The Codex Vaticanus repeats the word διδασκαλος in John 13:14. the phrase "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians" appears twice in Acts 19:34 in the Codex Vaticanus, while it only appears once in other manuscripts.[2]

References
  1. Paul D. Wegner, A student's guide to textual criticism of the Bible: its history, methods, and results Archived 2021-05-21 at the Wayback Machine, InterVarsity Press, 2006, p. 48.
  2. "Dittography". earlham.edu. Archived from the original on 12 June 2010.


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