Editing without erasing - to erase the priests

Joshua's father was called Nun. Except that it's not a name and his father is never mentioned. Why? Because it was originally written "Joshua the priest" and that was changed - without erasing a single letter - to Joshua Ben Nun (son of Non). Here's how they did it.

In the collaboration with Bernie Maopolski from the What's New in History podcast, I mentioned that the editors of the Bible had an easy time making the first change we can see in the Bible, in Genesis, chapter 1, verse 9, by turning the word mikveh, meaning "a pool of water", "a gathering of water", into makom, meaning "a place".

Did the waters gather in one mikveh or in one place? To each their own Bible

I also mentioned that the editors of the Bible were able to change the name Tsadok to the name Aaron without erasing a single letter.

A pretty nifty trick you can watch here.