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  • From: "Banyai Michael" <banyai AT t-online.de>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
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  • Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 13:09:30 -0500


gfsomsel wrote:

> Just a suggestion regarding the concluding formula. Would it possibly be
> the
> case that this would be used when there were several works on the same
> scoll?
> Then the formula "In the book of nnn it is written" would mean that this
> was
> found on the scroll that had this opening formula though it might, in fact,
> be an entirely different work.

Could be. Why not? Scribes tryed to come out in an economical way with
their
papyruses. So why not use a restant space on the back side of the papyrus,
as we
many times may observe in Egypt, to write something quite different. This
doesn´t
prevent one to once more use a header. why not.

But we are as always left without the concrete evidence and can in this
case
speak just about plausability, which is high. But I wouldn´t necesarilly
link the
concluding formula with this practice, since the header of the now
following work
would suffice.

Best regards,




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