Commentaries, Catenae and Biblical Tradition

Papers from the Ninth Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament, in association with the COMPAUL project

This collection of original research papers examines early commentaries on the New Testament and the transmission of the biblical text. Focusing principally on Greek and Latin tradition, it provides new insights into the sources and manuscripts of commentators and catenae.

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Series: Texts and Studies (Third Series)13

Publication Date: Mar 30,2016

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Page Count: 374

Languages: English

ISBN: 978-1-4632-0576-8

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Biblical commentaries offer fascinating insights into how the foundational texts of Christianity have been understood across the generations. The manuscripts of these commentaries, in Greek, Latin and the other languages of the early Church, shed light on the origins and transmission of these texts. In addition, ancient commentaries also provide some of the earliest surviving evidence for the text of the New Testament. Yet their witness has often been neglected or misrepresented because of the complexity of their presentation and textual tradition.

The COMPAUL project, funded by the European Research Council under the European Union Seventh Framework Programme, investigated the earliest commentaries on Paul as sources for the biblical text. Its work on early Greek and Latin commentary tradition is represented in several of the papers in this volume, including studies of Greek New Testament catena manuscripts and the interplay between Latin biblical commentators and their Greek forerunners. Related topics are treated in contributions from some of the world’s leading scholars in this field, extending the range of enquiry from the first centuries of Christianity to the later reception and transmission of New Testament commentaries in both Byzantine and Western traditions, as well as introducing material in Gothic, Coptic and Arabic.

The result is a comprehensive volume of original research papers which represent the state of the art in the study of commentaries and catenae. The advances in knowledge provided by this collection will both inform and enable further scholarship on the text and transmission of the New Testament.

	Contributor	Biography
	H. A. G.Houghton	H.A.G. Houghton is Professor of New Testament Textual Scholarship and Director of the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing at the University of Birmingham. He is currently principal investigator of the CATENA project and co-investigator of the Codex Zacynthius project, as well as serving as executive editor of the Pauline Epistles for the International Greek New Testament Project.
	GarrickAllen
	ShariBoodts
	LukasDorfbauer
	GillesDorival
	CarlaFalluomini
	JohnGram
	SusanGriffith
	ChristinaKreinecker	Dr Kreinecker is a Research Fellow currently working on Greek and Latin texts and manuscripts as part of a project on the Earliest Commentaries on Paul as Sources for the Biblical Text funded by the European Research Council. In recent years, she has contributed to a new edition of the Sahidic Coptic version of the Gospel according to John and worked on the Papyrological Commentaries on the New Testament.
	WilliamLamb
	AgnèsLorrain
	RosalindMacLachlan
	BruceMorrill
	TheodoraPanella
	DavidParker	D.C. Parker recently retiured as Professor of Digital Philology at the University of Birmingham. He was one of the founding directors of the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing and principal investigator of the Codex Zacynthius project. He has published extensively on manuscripts of the New Testament and has been responsible for numerous ground-breaking electronic editions.
	GertPartoens
	MatthiasSchulz

Table of Contents (page 7)
List of Contributors (page 9)
List of Abbreviations (page 13)
Preface (page 15)
1. An Introduction to Greek New Testament Commentaries with a Preliminary Checklist of New Testament Catena Manuscripts (H.A.G. Houghton & D.C. Parker) (page 25)
2. The Context of Commentary: Non-Biblical Commentary in the Early Christian Period (R.F. MacLachlan) (page 61)
3. Biblical Catenae: Between Philology and History (Gilles Dorival) (page 89)
4. Catenae and the Art of Memory (William Lamb) (page 107)
5. Parsing Paul: Layout and Sampling Divisions in Pauline Commentaries (Bruce Morrill & John Gram) (page 123)
6. Resurrection Appearences in the Pauline Catenae (Theodora Panella) (page 141)
7. The Reception of Scripture and Exegetical Resources in the Scholia in Apocalypsin (GA 2351) (Garrick V. Allen) (page 165)
8. Thedoret's Text of Romans (Agnes Lorrain) (page 189)
9. Bethania, Bethara, or Bethabara: Fortunatianus of Aquileia and Origen's Commentary on John, with particular reference to John 1:28 (Lukas J. Dorfbauer) (page 201)
10. Ambrose the Appropriator: Borrowed Texts in a New Context in the Commentary on Luke (Susan B. Griffith) (page 223)
11. Rufinus' Translation of Origen's Commentary on Romans: Christina M. Kreinecker) (page 251)
12. The Transmission of Florus of Lyon's Expositio epistolarum beati Pauli apostoli. State of the Art and New Results (Shari Boodts & Gert Partoens) (page 277)
13. Biblical Quotations in the Gothic Commentary on the Gospel of John (Skeireins) (Carla Falluomini) (page 301)
14. An Overview of Research on Bohairic Catena Manuscripts on the Gospels with a Grouping of Arabic and Ethiopic (Ge'ez) Sources and a Checklist of Manuscripts (Matthias Schulz) (page 319)
Index of Manuscripts (page 355)
Index of Biblical Passages (page 365)
Index of Subjects (page 369)

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