Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Revue Biblique
Angaben zur Quelle:
129,3 (2022) 321-340
Keywords:
Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai) Manuscripts
;
Bible. Manuscripts
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Manuscripts, Aramaic
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Manuscripts, Syriac
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Manuscripts, Greek
Abstract:
The find from 1975 in St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai of palimpsest Sinai, Greek NF MG 14 shows early Christian Palestinian Aramaic scripts (5th to 7th century) next to a Greek majuscule under the Lives of Saints, Encomium on the Theotokos which is also written in a Greek majuscule. Four folios contain Old Testament passages from various biblical books (1 Kingdoms, Job, Proverbs) for this Western Aramaic dialect. The edition here presents a new and unattested text witness for 1 Kingdoms 8:22b-9:2a; 3b-4a; 6-8; 18:25c-19:5 with additions of Lucian and Origen readings in the Christian Palestinian Aramaic transmission.
DOI:
10.2143/RBI.129.3.3290741
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