ORIENTALIACHRISTIANAPERIODICA

Inthisarticle,aspecifickindofnotesarestudiedthatarepreservedinthemarginsofthe
SyroHexaplaversionoftheSongofSongs.ThesenotesstatethatcertainHexaplaricreadingsare
identicaltotheSeptuaginttext(bdmwtshbyn,whichcanberetrovertedas o).One
wouldexpectthiso texttorefertotheHexaplaricrecension,butvariousfactorsseemtoshow
thatthiscannotalwaysbecorrect.Thispaperexamineswhethertheproblemcanbesolvedby
assumingthatthe notesdonotrefertoSyhtxt,buttoaGreekBibletextoriginatingin
catenatradition.Althoughsuchaconclusioncanbedrawnforsomereadings,aconsistentsystem
cannotbeidentified.

RafaZarzeczny,S.J.,SomeRemarksConcerningtheEthiopicRecensionoftheLife
ofAntony............................

TheLifeofAntony(CPG2102),oneofthemostimportantmonastictextofthefirstChristian
millennium,wastranslatedintoGeezperhapsalreadyintheAksumitperiod.L.Leloirconducted
thefirstexaminationoftheEthiopicredactioninthe1980s.However,hisprecociouspassing
awaystoppedthework,sothetextremainsunedited.Thepresentstudyaimstoinvestigatethe
statusquaestionisoftheresearch,withadescriptionofthemanuscripts,anexaminationofthe
textstructureandanalysisofseveralexpressions,particularlyconfrontingtheGreekdocuments.
OnlytwelvemanuscriptscontainingtheEthiopicredactionarepresentlyidentified,dividedin
twobasicfamilies.ThestructureofthetextgenerallyagreeswiththeGreekone.Thedocumentis
anonymous,andnoclassicalattributiontoAthanasiusofAlexandriacouldbefound.Some
particularomissions(especiallythelackofchapters12and2535)inallcodices,andother
structuralvariantsprovetheircommonarchetypesource.Moreover,severalpropernamesand
specificterms(suchasAntichrist)seemtoconfirmtheGreekVorlage,whichwasperhaps
differentfromthetextusreceptus.However,otherpossibilities(anArabicsource?)stillcannotbe
excluded,andthequestioncanonlyberesolvedwiththeeditionofthetextandfuturestudies.

SabinoChial,DuediscorsiritrovatidellaQuintapartediIsaccodiNinive?...........
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BiographicalsourcesforIsaacofNineveh,orIsaactheSyrian,arenotveryclearabouthowmuch
hewrote.Theyspeakgenerallyaboutvarioustomesorparts.Someofthemspecifyfiveor
seven,without,however,tellingusexactlywhatthesepartsconsistedin.Inonecase,however,
wehaveaninterestingindication:acertainDanielBarTubanitaissupposedtohavewrittena
rebuttaltotheFifthvolumeofIsaactheSyrian.

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Themanuscripttraditionhastransmittedtous:aFirstCollect.ion,knownfromantiquityand
translatedintoalmostallthelanguagesofChristendom........