Monday, December 01, 2008

SBL Boston, Cosaert on Clement's Text









Cosaert suggested two possibie explanations:



Comments and questions:





  1. If I remember correctly, the answer to the last question went something along the lines of this:

    Cosaert knew about the difficulty with text types being anachronistic, but decided at the start of his study to use them as this would then enable him to compare the evidence against work already done by other scholars. No use trying to define new categories all the time; rather describe from what we've got.

    Then again, this might only be the way I remember it. - Similar to what people would "remember" from a church sermon.

  2. My apologies for writing off topic. I am looking for Marguerite Harl's Grinfield Lectures on the Septuagint on the Greek version of the Song of Songs (Oxford, 1989). If anyone has access to them and is willing to let me look at them (or knows how I might get access to them), please contact me at Thank you for your time and assistance. All the best, Jonathan Kaplan

  3. When do our manuscripts of Clement date from? If they're late enough, one might expect copyists to have made some harmonizations to the Byzantine (even subconsciously).

  4. Is this what is meant by "aligning with later witnesses?"

    An analogy would be to find a manuscript copy of the United States Constitution with the appropriate deletions and additions generated by the forthcoming 27 amendments.