[B-Greek] icons and textual variants
Eric Weiss
papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 9 10:57:36 EST 2007
TC list seems to be down for an indeterminate time, so forgive me for asking this question at B-Greek. Reply to me offline if you don't think it's appropriate for B-Greek.
This icon for the Patriarch Jacob (son of Isaac, grandson of Abraham) has the following writing on the scroll in his hand, from Genesis 49:10, as you can see in the picture here:
http://www.stspress.com/images/icons/saints/ICP63l.jpg
OUK EKLEIYEI ARCWN EX IOUDA KAI HGOUMENOS **APO** TWN MHRWN AUTOU [EWS AN ELQHi TA APOKEIMENA AUTWi KAI AUTOS PROSDOKIA EQNWN]
The reading APO TWN MHRWN is not in my Rahlfs Septuagint, either in the text or as a variant. Nor is it in Brenton's Septuagint Greek text. Rather, both have **EK** TWN MHRWN.
Of what validity for textual criticism are variants found in icons? Do textual critics ever study Scripture passages in icons for possible variant readings (assuming that the reading likely reproduces one that is known to date back hundreds of years and is not just an iconographer's personal change to the text)?
Eric S. Weiss
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