The Two-Volume Archetype of the Pauline Corpus
An extremely ancient edition of the Pauline corpus collecting 14 epistles into a pair of rolls, with Hebrews heading the second roll, arguably underlies the text and numbering in Codex Vaticanus. For such an arrangement, a plausible rationale is apparent, mainly involving considerations of length (p...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Eisenbrauns
[2018]
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Journal for the study of Paul and his letters
Year: 2018, Volume: 8, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 102-126 |
| Further subjects: | B
John the Evangelist
B Marcionite Prologues B Catholic Epistles B canonical cdition B seven-churches edition B Nomina Sacra B Sahidic version |
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| Summary: | An extremely ancient edition of the Pauline corpus collecting 14 epistles into a pair of rolls, with Hebrews heading the second roll, arguably underlies the text and numbering in Codex Vaticanus. For such an arrangement, a plausible rationale is apparent, mainly involving considerations of length (perhaps further influenced by inclusion of 2 Peter as an epilogue). Furthermore, this lost two-volume edition can explain many difficulties surrounding the early evolution of the corpus. Transitioning to the single-volume codex format motivated the segregation of Hebrews from the public epistles into a distinct group alongside the four pastorals, with Galatians left still before the slightly longer Ephesians, and the resulting well-attested edition and its derivatives account for nearly all witnesses of the corpus. The exceptional ??46 stems from an imperfect attempt to replicate this edition from a two-roll exemplar, while several distinctive features of Marcion's Apostolicon derived independently from the two-volume edition. Both the titles of the epistles and the "in Ephesus" in Ephesians were absent in the original two-volume edition but were supplied when its contents were incorporated into a larger New Testament compilation. From this two-volume edition, likely assembled by Luke, all subsequent collections of Paul's epistles have arguably descended. |
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| ISSN: | 2576-7941 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of Paul and his letters
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5325/jstudpaullett.8.1-2.0102 |