The Problematic Text of Athenagoras of Athens’s "Leg." 12.3: A Proposed Emendation
This study argues that Athenagoras of Athens’s Leg. 12.3 contains a lacuna. A vital clause should be emended to read ὑπὸ µόνου δὲ παραπεµπόµενοι τοῦ τὸν ὄντως θεὸν καὶ τὸν παρ’αὐτοῦ λόγον [πνεύµατος] εἰδέναι. The argument proceeds in three stages. First, an overview of the text, context, and history...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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Vigiliae Christianae
Year: 2016, Volume: 70, Issue: 3, Pages: 319-334 |
RelBib Classification: | HB Old Testament KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NBG Pneumatology; Holy Spirit VB Hermeneutics; Philosophy |
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Leg. 12.3
religious epistemology
prophecy
pneumatology
Genesis 1-2
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Volltext (Verlag) |
Summary: | This study argues that Athenagoras of Athens’s Leg. 12.3 contains a lacuna. A vital clause should be emended to read ὑπὸ µόνου δὲ παραπεµπόµενοι τοῦ τὸν ὄντως θεὸν καὶ τὸν παρ’αὐτοῦ λόγον [πνεύµατος] εἰδέναι. The argument proceeds in three stages. First, an overview of the text, context, and history of interpretation of Leg. 12.3 will demonstrate that the text contains a lacuna. Second, a brief survey of Athenagoras’s religious epistemology will argue that πνεύµατος was the most likely original word. Finally, an analysis of the Spirit’s role in Leg. 7.2-3 will demonstrate that the reconstructed text of Leg. 12.3 is consistent with Athenagoras’s pneumatology, which relied upon traditional Jewish exegesis of the creation narratives. |
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ISSN: | 1570-0720 |
Contains: | In: Vigiliae Christianae
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700720-12341273 |