Codex Bezae (D05) Readings #1

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Aug 21 07:32:40 EDT 2002


I think my translation of Mme Chabert's final clause was erroneous; she
wrote: "les AUTOPTAI avaient transmis leur lecture d'une partie des
évènements; ceux-ci ne se réduisaient pas à leurs seuls témoignages." In
English I think that should be, "The eye-witnesses had handed down their
reading of some of the events; these (the events) were not exclusively
their own testimonies."

Does anyone really believe that D05's KAQA in Lk 1:2 bears or is intended
to bear a meaning different from the generally accepted KAQWS. Granted that
KAQA appears only once in the NA27/UBS4 GNT (Mt 27.10 KAI EDWKAN AUTA EIS
TON AGRON TOU KERAMEWS, KAQA SUNETAXEN MOI KURIOS). My own view is that
KAQA in D05 (i.e. in Codex Bezae) means exactly the same as KAQWS in the
chief MSS. I do NOT think that there's an implicit direct object in a hA of
KAT' hA but rather than KAQA is an adverbial conjunction. Here's BDAG:

KAQA conj. or adv. (since Polyb. 3, 107, 10 [FKälker, Quaest. de elocut.
Polyb. 1880, 300]; Diod. S. 4, 81, 3; 19, 48, 2; 19, 71, 7; ins
[Meisterhans3-Schw. 257; SIG index]; PRyl 160 II, 18; POxy 1473, 10; LXX;
PsSol 2:12; TestAbr B 5 p. 109, 19 [Stone p. 66]; TestJob 17:4; JosAs
24:10f; ParJer 3:22 [AB]; Jos., Ant. 19, 96; 298; 20, 6; Ar. 4, 2; Just.;
Tat. 1, 2; Ath. 20, 2) just as Mt 27:10; Lk 1:2 D (s. B-D-F §453); IMg
10:1; Hs 1:8; AcPl Ha 5, 18.-how, the way in which AKOUE ..., KAQA DI
(=DEI) SE SWQHNAI AcPl Ha 1, 5; Hs 8, 7, 1 v.l.-M-M

Louw & Nida also understand them as identical in sense:

64.14 KAQA; KAQWSc; KAQOa: markers of similarity in events and states, with
the possible implication of something being in accordance with something
else - 'just as, in comparison to.'
KAQA¿Ú KAQA SUNETAXEN MOI KURIOS 'just as the Lord had ordered me' Mt 27:10.
KAQWSc Ú KAQWS GAR EGENETO IWNAS TOIS NINEUITAIS SHMEION 'for just as Jonah
became a sign to the Ninevites' Lk 11:30; KAQWS HGAPHSEN ME hO PATHR 'the
same way as the Father loved me' Jn 15:9.
KAQOa Ú TI PROSEUXWMEQA KAQO DEI OUK OIDAMEN 'we do not know what we should
pray for as we ought to' Ro 8:26.

At 10:13 AM -0400 8/20/02, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>The following is the first of several readings from Codex Bezae (D05)
>submitted by Sylvie Chabert d'Hyères to B-Greek for submission in
>accordance with my immediately preceding announcement of this sequential
>discussion; others will follow in turn as each discussion thread has run
>its course. To assist B-Greekers who might be unfamiliar with French
>formatting conventions or uncomfortable with the French statement of the
>concerns, I have adjusted the formatting (and the transliteration) to
>follow B-Greek conventions and have offered (in square brackets following
>each statement) an English translation of the French; I have tried to be as
>clear and precise in my translation, but I won't vouch for its total
>accurancy and I welcome corrections.
>
>1 - KAQA/KAQWS,
>Lk 1:2 MS D05: KAQA PAREDOSAN hHMIN hOI AP' ARCHS AUTOPTAI
>- 1 conformément à ce que nous ont transmis les témoins oculaires
>["according to what the eyewitnesses have transmitted to us ..."
>KAQA pour KAT' hA; hA pluriel neutre du relatif hOS, hH hO ["KAQA for KAT'
>hA; neuter plural hA of the relative pronoun hOS, hH hO"]
>
>Lk 1:2 MSS A B etc.: KAQWS PAREDOSAN hHMIN hOI AP' ARCHS AUTOPTAI
>- 2 comme nous ont transmis les témoins oculaires ["as the eye-witnesses
>have transmitted to us ..."
>En D05 le verbe a pour complément d'objet direct le relatif hA. (Même
>remarque en Mt 27,10). Si je ne me trompe pas, ce relatif ne représente pas
>le terme PRAGMATWN qui précède mais signifie "selon les choses que..."; les
>AUTOPTAI avaient transmis leur lecture d'une partie des évènements; ceux-ci
>ne se réduisaient pas à leurs seuls témoignages. ["In D05 the verb has as a
>direct object the relative hA. (just as in MT 27,10 KAQA SUNETAXEN MOI
>KURIOS). If I am not mistaken, this relative does not refer back to
>PRAGMATWN as antecedent but means "according to things' that..."; the
>AUTOPTAI had transmitted their reading of some of the events; they did not
>limit themselves to their testimonies only."]
>
>Dans les autres manuscrits où le relatif fait défaut, on peut se demander
>si la phrase n'est pas bancale. Le relatif serait-il sous-entendu en grec
>et selon quelle règle? Les traducteurs français suppléent par l'addition de
>"ce que" ou bien de "les" qui, lui, renvoie aux PRAGMATWN. Ailleurs quand
>Luc utilise KAQWS c'est devant un verbe intransitif ou bien devant un verbe
>qui a, dans la phrase même, un substantif comme complément d'objet direct.
>{une exception en 5,14 ; à moins que PROSTASSW , qui commande hINA en D05,
>ne soit pris intransitivement?} ["In the other manuscripts where the
>relative pronoun is lacking, one might wonder whether the sentence isn't
>awkward. Would the relative pronoun would be implicit in the Greek and
>according to what rule? The French translators compensate by the addition
>of "what" or of "them" which refers back to the PRAGMATWN. Elsewhere when
>Luke uses KAQWS it precedes an intransitive verb or a verb which has, in
>the very sentence, a substantive as a direct object {an exception in 5:14;
>unless PROSTASSW, which governs hINA in D05, is not construed
>intransitively?}"]
>--
>
>Carl W. Conrad
>Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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Carl W. Conrad
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