[B-Greek] icons and textual variants
George F Somsel
gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 9 11:04:22 EST 2007
The question is whether it indeed does "date back hundreds of years and is not just an iconographer's personal change" since it is my understanding that iconography is an art form which must be studied on its own and that therefore the creators of icons are generally not students of the text itself. It may be that what they have included in the icon is simply a personal reminiscence of the text which they have heard in services. It may be then that they are not actually looking at the text when they are paining the icon. I personally would not give a great deal of weight to some depiction of the text in an icon unless it is supportive of other evidence.
george
gfsomsel
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From: Eric Weiss <papaweiss1 at yahoo.com>
To: b-greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, February 9, 2007 10:57:36 AM
Subject: [B-Greek] icons and textual variants
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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