Lk 2:42: age of Jesus in the Temple (Luke in Codex Bezae issue)

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Sep 25 12:15:22 EDT 2002


On behalf of Mme Chabert d'Hyères I am posting separately a reformulated
and Englished version of more questions on readings of Codex Bezae in
Luke's gospel:

[D05; L, 579; pc] : KAI hOTE EGENETO AUTW ETH DWDEKA
[NA27] : KAI hOTE EGENETO  ETWN DWDEKA

Chabert: I would summarize as follows the rule governing indication of
years of age in Greek: (1) With EINAI (frequently implicit) and the
genitive followed by a cardinal number, often modalized by  insertion of
hWS; indicates the year in which one is currently (e.g., the twentieth
year, prior to reaching one's  twentieth birthday); (2) With GIGNOMAI and
the accusative of duration followed by the cardinal number; indicates  time
elapsed; twenty years elapsed and the twenty-first year begun. In view of
these rules, how should we interpret the reading of NA27 with GIGNOMAI and
the genitive?
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Carl W. Conrad
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