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