Codex Bezae (D05) Reading #8
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Aug 23 12:37:20 EDT 2002
At 8:39 PM -0400 8/22/02, Polycarp66 at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 8/22/2002 8:00:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu writes:
>
>
>8 - Lk 1:26 NA27/USB4: APESTALH hO AGGELOS APO TOU QEOU; D05: ... hUPO TOU
>QEOU
>Envoyé ... par Dieu. Il semble que la différenciation UPO / APO se soit
>atténuée avec le temps, APO remplaçant progressivement UPO. Aussi la
>correction de upo en apo ne témoignerait-elle pas d'une rédaction plus
>tardive ? Mais b-greek a peut-être déjà traité du sujet? ["Sent ... by God.
>It appears that the distinction between hUPO and APO weakened with time,
>APO progressively replacing hUPO. Is it also possible that the correction
>of hUPO into APO might attest a later redaction? But perhaps B-Greek has
>already held a discussion of this matter?"]
>____________________________
>
>I'm wondering what Randall Buth would say regarding this. My understanding
>is that these MSS were "mass produced" by having one monk read while the
>others listened and wrote. Would the pronunciation perhaps be such as to
>result in an error of hearing (if the monk reading did not simply misread).
Well, I can see how the -PO element might be confused in rapid enunciation,
but I don't see how the initial vowel sound could be confused. My own guess
about this variation is that hUPO TOU QEOU is a scribal correction of what
the scribe perceived to be an agent construction; On the other hand APO
TOU QEOU EIS POLIN hHi ONOMA ... seems apt for phrasing emphasizing not
agent but source and destination.
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Carl W. Conrad
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