where are the supposed distinctive 700 AD corrections in 1 Chronicles 2 Esdras and Esther?

Steven Avery

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two copies of Chronicles is evidence that work was done on the manuscript in Sinai
https://www.purebibleforum.com/index.php/threads/a.233

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You can see normal-looking corrections.

Often simply stuff like omitted text or homoeoteleutons that would have been corrected at the time of production.

e.g.- the homoeoteleuton
http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/manus...lioNo=6&lid=en&quireNo=36&side=r&zoomSlider=0

By official Sinaiticus theory, the colophons were written about 700 AD.
Yet the colophons say that when they were written lots of corrections were done.
So we should see these corrections in 1 Chronicles, 2 Esdras and Esther. And the script would be very different than corrections from centuries earlier.

Plus the script should NOT match the script of the homoeoteleutons, since those would have been done at the time of production.

They would have to be in a noticeably different and later hand than the mass of corrections that were done at the time of production.

Where are the (missing) 700 AD corrections?
 
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Steven Avery

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If the colophons are simply a fabrication, if there are no actual corrections that reflect the claim ... that is a major hitch for Sinaiticus Theory

Then someone put them on deliberately to support an ancient manuscript theory, an appearance of age.

Who would do that before the 1800s?
In Sinaiticus theory, the ms. has been sitting in Sinai since about 700 AD. Once the manuscript was landed, it would make no sense to add such a false colophon, they are added to give an appearance of age.

With Sinaiticus, that would mean the 1840-1845 period.
 
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Alexandrinus - the Thecla note

The classic controversy of this type involves Codex Alexandrinus and notes about Thecla, which may have been a forgery put on to enhance the perceived antiquity and value. This is planned for review later.

Michaelis
https://books.google.com/books?id=Kis-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA196

Horne - Tregelles (1877)
http://books.google.com/books?id=vS4XAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA152
It received the name of Alexandrinus from its having been brought by Cyrillus from Alexandria to Constantinople; and an Arabic subscription of comparatively modern, but still not recent, date (mentioning that the MS. was said to have been written with the pen of Thecla the martyr), is some proof of its having been preserved in Egypt.
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The Early Christian Book (CUA Studies in Early Christianity) (2007)
https://books.google.com/books?id=3vLeyIIjwGQC&pg=PT221

Encyclopaedia Britannica - (1875)
http://books.google.com/books?id=m0kgAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA497

A Study of the Gospels in Codex Alexandrinus: Codicology, Palaeography, and Scribal Hand (2014)
William Andrew Smith
https://books.google.com/books?id=pWHPBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA10
A couple of sections include Thecla discussion
The Encyclopedia of New Testament Textual Criticism
https://books.google.com/books?id=pefhAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA945
A colophon attributes it to Thecla, working in the time of Saint Paul (I), but this colophon is clearly a later forgery; it may have been written by a Thecla, but not that Thecla.

Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King's Collections (1921)
https://books.google.com/books?id=yQ47AQAAMAAJ&q="thecla"+"colophon"+"alexandrinus"&dq="thecla"+"colophon"+"alexandrinus"&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiriPSf8vjaAhUKPN8KHcBfB7wQ6AEIPzAE
4 b) states (according to a Latin translation appended in the hand of Dr. Richard Bentley, Royal Librarian in 1693-17 24) that the MS. was written b Thecla the Martyr; and a Latin note (f. 2) by Cyril Lucar Patriarch of ...

Guardians of Letters: Literacy, Power, and the Transmitters of Early Christian Literature (2000)
Kim Haines-Eitzen
https://books.google.com/books?id=NjgtmT0prkUC&pg=PA50
 
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