[B-Greek] icons and textual variants

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 9 11:14:27 EST 2007


As a little additional note, have you ever remained quiet and listened as the congregation recites the Creed or the Lord's Prayer?  Sometimes you hear variants of what is actually written in the Creed or in the gospel account.  It even happens with regard to our national symbols.  People mess up the Pledge of Allegiance all the time.  The other week I heard a recording in which Hillary Clinton was singing the National Anthem at some affair, and she didn't know the words.

 
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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