Adrian’s Introduction to the Divine Scriptures: An Antiochene Handbook for Scriptural Interpretation

358 Pages·2017·18.496 MB·English

by  Martens, Peter W.

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Adrian's Introduction to
the Divine Scriptures
An Antiochene Handbook for
Scriptural Interpretation
EDITED WITH A STUDY, TRANSLATION, AND COMMENTARY
ON THE TEXT BY
PETER W. MARTENS
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Acknowledgements
It is my privilege to thank the many scholars who lent me their expertise so
generously on this book project. I am grateful for the various forms of assis
tance that I received from Robert Allison, Theodora Antonopoulou, Davide
Baldi, John Behr, Matthieu Cassin, Nicholas Constas, Brian Daley, Anne
Debary, Mark DelCogliano, Eleonor Dickey, Gilles Dorival, Valentina D'Urso,
Albertus Horsting, Anne Leader, Santo Luca, Karin Metzler, Clarence Miller,
Geoffrey Miller, William O'Brien, Ryan Platte, Franz Xaver Risch, Julia Schneider,
Panagiotis Sotiroudis, Kenneth Steinhauser, monk Theologos (t he librarian
at Iviron), Warren Treadgold, Christopher Wright, and Philip Zymaris. I am
deeply grateful for all your assistance!
The Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society
allowed me to inspect a number of manuscripts in person at the Biblioteca
Medicea Laurenziana (Florence), Bibliotheca Apostolica (Vatican City), and
Bibliotheque nationale de France (Paris). I am especially thankful for the hos
pitality and resources of the Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes in
Paris where I was able to spend a week examining their rich microfiche collec
tion. It is a privilege to trace my own editorial work back, as many before me
have, to the visionary founder of the Institute's Greek section, Marcel Richard.
Saint Louis University offered generous funding to help me complete this
project, including a Mellon grant to study Greek paleography at Lincoln
College (Oxford University). This project began as a one-year fellowship from
the National Endowment for the Humanities while I was at Yale University. I
am deeply appreciative of the generous financial assistance that I have received
while researching and writing this book.
I am especially indebted to my graduate assistant, Andrew Chronister. He
has worked tirelessly and with an exacting eye on this project, and on more
than one occasion helped me unravel a stubborn knot. He ensured the timely
completion of this book.

Contents
General Abbreviations xi
Abbreviations: Authors and Works xiii
Introduction 1
PART I: STUDY
1. Authorship 7
A. Name 8
B. First Biographical Remarks 9
C. An Antiochene 15
2. Title and Topic 20
A. Title 20
B. Topic 22
1. On style and its three components 23
2. Peculiarities of Scripture 26
3. The "Hebrew" literary style 28
4. The Introduction and parallels in Greco-Roman
literary criticism 31
3. Structure and Scholarly Conventions 34
A. Structure 34
B. Scholarly Conventions 36
1. Divisions 36
2. Catalogues 38
3. Space-saving conventions 39
4. Problems and solutions 40
4. Exegetical Guidelines and Classroom Setting 43
A. Preparation for Textual Analysis 43
1. The purpose and subject matter of Scripture 43
2. Literary peculiarities, figures, and tropes 45
B. Exegetical Aims 48
1. Precision 48
2. Fittingness 49
3. Clarity 50
C. Classroom Setting 52
PART II: EDITION AND ANNOTATED TRANSLATION
1. Overview: Recensions, Manuscripts, and Editions of
Adrian's Introduction to the Divine Scriptures 59
Contents
X
2. Editions and Translations-Past and Present 61
A. David Hoeschel's Editio Princeps and Its Reprints 61
B. Friedrich Goessling's Edition 63
1. Representation of variant readings 64
2. Stemma for Recension 1 64
3. Karl Friedrich Schliiren's emendations 65
4. Lollin's Latin translation of two Greek mss 66
5. Fragments from the exegetical catenae 68
6. Additional problems 69
C. Modern Translations 70
D. The Present Edition and Translation 71
1. Recension 1 71
2. Recension 2 71
3. Catena fragments 72
4. Translation 73
3. The Manuscripts 75
A. Recension 1 75
B. Recension 2 86
C. Exegetical Catenae 88
4. Recensio Codicum 89
A. Stemma: Recension 1 89
B. Stemma: Recension 2 96
5. The Relationship between the Recensions 100
A. Overview of the Recensions 100
B. The Relationship between the Recensions 101
1. Shared material between Rl and R2 102
2. Distinctive material 103
3. Catenae fragments 104
C. Reconstructing R. 105
6. Conventions of the Present Edition and Translation 108
A. Edition 108
1. Textus 108
2. Apparatus fontium 116
3. Apparatus criticus 117
B. Translation 120
7. List of Symbols and Abbreviations 121
Text of Recensions and Translation 124
Fragments of Adrian's Introduction to the Divine Scriptures in
the Exegetical Catenae 286
Bibliography 319
Index of Scripture 339
General Abbreviations
ACO Acta conciliorum oecumenicorum
ACT Ancient Christian Texts
ACW Ancient Christian Writers
AnnSE Annali di storia dell'esegesi
ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt
BAV Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
BDAG Bauer, Walter. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other
Early Christian Literature. 3rd ed. Rev. Frederick W Danker, W F. Arndt,
and F. W Gingrich. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001
BDF Blass, Friedrich and Albert Debrunner. A Greek Grammar of the New
Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. Trans. R. W Funk.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961
CCSG Corpus Christianorum, Series Graeca
CCSL Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina
CPG Clavis Patrum Graecorum
csco
Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium
CSEL Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum
DBS Dictionnaire de la Bible. Supplement
DHGE Dictionnaire d'histoire et de geographie ecclesiastiques
DNP Der Neue Pauly: Enzyklopiidie der Antike
EBR Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception
FOTC Fathers of the Church
GCS Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten drei Jahrhunderte
GELS Muraoka, T., ed. A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint. Leuven:
Peeters, 2009
HTR Harvard Theological Review
HWP Historisches Worterbuch der Philosophie
HWRh Historisches Worterbuch der Rhetorik
JTS Journal of Theological Studies
KP Der Kleine Pauly
LCL Loeb Classical Library
LEC Library ofEarly Christianity
LSJ Liddell, Henry G., and Robert Scott. Ed. Henry S. Jones and Roderick
McKenzie. A Greek-English Lexicon. Rev. and aug. Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1996
LXX Septuagint
NT New Testament
NPNF Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers
OT Old Testament
PG Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Graeca
PGL Lampe, Geoffrey, ed. A Patristic Greek Lexicon. Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1961
xii General Abbreviations
PL Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Latina
PTS Patristische Texte und Studien
PW Pauly-Wissova (Paulys Realencyclopiidie der classischen
Altertumswissenschaft)
RAC Reallexikon fur Antike und Christen tum
RB Revue Biblique
RSR Revue des sciences religieuses
SBAW Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-philologischen und der historischen
Classe der k. b. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Mi.inchen
SC Sources Chretiennes
Smyth Smyth, Herbert W. Greek Grammar. Rev. Gordon M. Messing.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1959
ST Studi e Testi
StPatr Studia Patristica
TEG Traditio Exegetica Graeca
TLG 'Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: A Digital Library of Greek Literature
TRE 'Theologische Realenenzyclopiidie
TTH Translated Texts for Historians
vc
Vigiliae Christianae
WGRW Writings from the Greco-Roman World