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New Light on the Marginalia of Family 1 in John

Elmelund, Conrad Thorup LU orcid and Wasserman, Tommy (2024) In Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung 60. p.415-444
Abstract
In 1902 Kirsopp Lake published his groundbreaking study of Family 1 (f 1): 1, 118, 131, 205, 209, to which he later added 1582 as a core witness. Subsequently, Amy S. Anderson demonstrated that 1582 is the leading member in Matthew linking the archetype, a now lost uncial dating to ca. 500 CE, to Caesarea. More recently, Alison Welsby identified a new group of core members in John, 565, 884 and 2193 and proposed that the intermediate archetype (A-1) from which all extant members descend contained rare Non-Majority readings in the text and alternative readings written in the margins. Subsequently, David C. Parker has proposed that these readings were added “to note the wording more familiar to the compiler(s) or user(s) than that found in... (More)
In 1902 Kirsopp Lake published his groundbreaking study of Family 1 (f 1): 1, 118, 131, 205, 209, to which he later added 1582 as a core witness. Subsequently, Amy S. Anderson demonstrated that 1582 is the leading member in Matthew linking the archetype, a now lost uncial dating to ca. 500 CE, to Caesarea. More recently, Alison Welsby identified a new group of core members in John, 565, 884 and 2193 and proposed that the intermediate archetype (A-1) from which all extant members descend contained rare Non-Majority readings in the text and alternative readings written in the margins. Subsequently, David C. Parker has proposed that these readings were added “to note the wording more familiar to the compiler(s) or user(s) than that found in the text” with the result that most of them follow the Majority Text. In this study, we present a new witness to Family 1 in John, GA 2954, and propose a revised family stemma in John. This manuscript contains seventy-eight alternative readings in the margin, far more than any other witness, a few of which are unique. At the same time, it reflects a strong tendency on the part of scribe(s) in the chain of transmission to transpose text and margin. (Less)
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Textforschung zu Septuaginta, Hebräerbrief und Apokalypse : Die Relevanz von Textkritik für die Erforschung des frühen Judentums, des Neuen Testaments und des frühen ChristentumsFestschrift für Martin Karrer zum 70. Geburtstag - Die Relevanz von Textkritik für die Erforschung des frühen Judentums, des Neuen Testaments und des frühen ChristentumsFestschrift für Martin Karrer zum 70. Geburtstag
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Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung
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Gäbel, Georg ; Geigenfeind, Matthias and Müller, Darius
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60
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30 pages
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De Gruyter
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0570-5509
0570-5509
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9783111549682
9783111549521
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English
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b0b932fd-de73-432c-81f0-05acd184156c
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