Scribal Habits and Theological Influences in the Apocalypse: The Singular Readings of Sinaiticus, Alexandrinus, and EphraemiModelled on the respective studies of Ernest C. Colwell and James R. Royse, Juan Hernandez Jr. offers a fresh and comprehensive discussion of the Apocalypse's singular readings in Sinaiticus, Alexandrinus, and Ephraemi. Moreover, the singular readings of the Apocalypse are also assessed in light of the work's reception history in the early church. The author shows that the scribes of these three manuscripts omitted more often than they added to their texts, were prone to harmonizing, and, in the case of at least one scribe, made significant theological changes to the fourth century text of the Apocalypse. The author also attempts to integrate the findings of the most recent text-critical research of the Apocalypse with studies of its reception history in the early church. His book is the first systematic study of scribal habits on the Apocalypse that takes seriously the claim that some scribes were making changes to the text of the Apocalypse for theological reasons. |
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
A History of Research of the Greek Text of the Apocalypse | 10 |
The Singular Readings of the Apocalypse in Codex Sinaiticus | 49 |
The Singular Readings of the Apocalypse in Codex Alexandrinus | 96 |
The Singular Readings of the Apocalypse in Codex Ephraemi | 132 |
Theological Concerns over the Interpretation of the Apocalypse | 156 |
Conclusion | 192 |
The Singular Readings of the Apocalypse in Codex Sinaiticus | 199 |
Singular Readings in Sinaiticus Supported by Versions | 209 |
Singular Readings in Alexandrinus Supported by Versions | 215 |
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Common terms and phrases
Alogi Andrew of Caesarea angels anti-Judaic Apoca Apocalypse Apocalypse in Codex Apocalypse's Apocalypse's MS tradition appears Arian Aune Bart D canonical chapter Christ Christological claim Codex Alexandrinus Codex Ephraemi Codex Sinaiticus Colwell concerns conjunctions corrections created discussion early church Eerdmans Eldon Jay Epp Epiphanius Epp's fourth century Gignac Gospel grammatical attraction Grand Rapids Greek Papyri Greek text Hort Hort's Hoskier Ibid identifying immediate context Jesus Johannes-Apokalypse lypse majuscules Metzger and Ehrman nonsense readings noun Novum Testamentum Graece occurs Oecumenius omission due omit original Orthodox Corruption orthographic Papyri passage possible prepositional phrase pronoun rell Revelation Royse Schmid scribal activity scribal change Scribal Habits scribal harmonizing scribal tendencies scribe scribe of Codex singular readings Studien switch Testament Textual Criticism text-critical principles text-types Textual Criticism tion Tischendorf toű transcription transpositions Urtext variants verb Volume Vorlage Weiss rightly words εκ επι καὶ τῆς τοῦ