Tyler,
On the use of red ink in Antiquity, a very good source is: Anne F.
Robertson, Word Dividers, Spot Markers and Clause Markers in Old
Assyrian, Ugaritic, and Egyptian Texts. Diss. NYU, November 1993.
(Chuck Jones mentioned it some years ago with respect to the use
of red inks in the DSS. As
A few Qumran scrolls have some writing in red ink on them (e.g.,
4QNum-b, 2QPs), and in most cases their editors plausibly suggest that
this may indicate a liturgical function (see, e.g., DJD XII, p. 211 for
4QNum-b).
I was wondering if the use of red ink could additionally suggest that
the
