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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek παρά (pará, “beside”) and βλέπω (blépō, “to look at”).
Noun
parablepsis (countable and uncountable, plural parablepses)
- (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).
Usage notes
Not to be confused with paralipsis (also spelled paralepsis).
References
- Ehrman, Bart D. (2005) Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, New York, NY: HarperCollins, →ISBN (although he writes it as "periblepsis" in that book)