Out of Print: Excising and Preserving the Daniel Tradition in Early Printed Greek Bibles
The life in print of the Greek version of Daniel is a case study in the ways in which editors and printers mediate notional texts into particular material objects shaped by their own contingencies. From antiquity onwards all MSS of the Greek Bible naturally include the ‘Additions’ which distinguish...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2022
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2022, Volume: 73, Issue: 1, Pages: 22-42 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Azariah
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/ Print
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history |
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| Summary: | The life in print of the Greek version of Daniel is a case study in the ways in which editors and printers mediate notional texts into particular material objects shaped by their own contingencies. From antiquity onwards all MSS of the Greek Bible naturally include the ‘Additions’ which distinguish the longer Greek texts from the shorter Hebrew and Aramaic tradition, and this continues into the age of print: the Greek pluses are integral in the first two complete printed Greek Bibles, the Complutensian Polyglot published in 1522 and the Aldine edition of 1518-19. This all changes with Johannes Lonicerus’ 1526/4 Septuagint: Lonicerus excises the ‘additional’ material in the Greek texts of the book of Daniel to create a totally synthetic Greek version, a Greek Bible laid over the template of the Hebrew and trimmed to fit it, yielding a Greek text that had never previously existed in Greek. This practice continues right into the modern scholarly study of the Septuagint, only ending with Tischendorf’s 1850 Septuagint. Yet alongside this pattern of excision is a balancing pattern of persistence, as the motif of the Three Hebrews singing and praying in the fire proves surprisingly difficult to eradicate. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flac001 |