parablepsis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek παρά (pará, “beside”) and βλέπω (blépō, “to look at”)

Noun

parablepsis (countable and uncountable, plural parablepses)

  1. (palaeography) A circumstance in which a scribe miscopies text due to inadvertently looking to the side while copying, or accidentally skips over some of it.
    • 1978, International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, Congress Volume, →ISBN, page 400:
      So too parablepses due to homoioteleuton in the Greek text are irrelevant for the Hebrew text.
    • 2009, Raymond De Hoop, ‎Marjo Christina Annette Korpel, ‎& Stanley E. Porter, The Impact of Unit Delimitation on Exegesis, →ISBN, page 35:
      Vertical parablebsis does not fit either, since it should be in the range of several lines (two or three lines).

References
  • Ehrman, Bart D. (2005) Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, New York, NY: HarperCollins, →ISBN
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