is longer: Friedrich Giesebrecht estimated that about twenty-seven hundred words of M are lacking in G, while G contains about one hundred words lacking in M;7 the result is that G is about one-eighth shorter than M. The question of the relation between G and M has been discussed for a century and a half,8 but until the recovery of the Qumran material it was possible to slight the importance of G: one could assume that its omissions had arisen secondarily within the Greek tradition, whether by