Batovici: Two B Scribes in Codex Sinaiticus?

In the Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, Dan Batovici has a new article arguing against splitting the “B” scribe into two.

Abstract: The history of scribal hand identification in Codex Sinaiticus is a fairly complicated one. The most recent identification, splitting the work of Tischendorf’s scribe B in B1 and B2, was attempted by Amy Myshrall in a 2015 contribution, as a result of the work on the Codex Sinaiticus digitizing project completed in 2009. This article will assess the argument proposed by Amy Myshrall for distinguishing the two new scribes, and it argues that there is not enough reason to adopt the newly proposed distinction.

The article is on his Academia page.

Review of Scribal Habits in Codex Sinaiticus

On the blog Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies maintained by some doctoral students including "core contributors" Dan Batovici (St Andrews), David J. Larsen (St Andrews), Justin A. Mihoc (Durham), and Samuli Siikavirta (Cambridge), you can read reviews and reports on presented papers. To my knowledge, at least two of the contributors have worked in the field of textual criticism, and there are several reviews in the category "textual criticism", the most recent being Batovici's review of our co-blogger Dirk Jongkind's, Scribal Habits of Codex Sinaiticus (Texts and Studies 5; Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias, 2007), here. Batovici, by the way, did his MPhil in Cambridge under Peter Head on the text of the Shepherd in Codex Sinaiticus.

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