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Song of Songs (Canticles, Song of Solomon) history of twofold divisions
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Lost keys: Text and interpretation in old Greek ``Song of Songs'' and its earliest manuscript witnesses (1996)
Jay Curry Treat
https://www.academia.edu/86238252/L...of_Songs_and_its_earliest_manuscript_witnesse
Abstract
Lost Keys: Text and Interpretation in Old Greek "Song of Songs" and Its EarliestLost Keys: Text and Interpretation in Old Greek "Song of Songs" and Its Earliest
Manuscript WitnessesManuscript Witnesses
AbstractAbstract
The earliest extant interpretation of the entire Song of Songs is its Old Greek translation. A critical edition
of the Old Greek text is provided in the format of the Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint Study
(CATSS) Variants Project. This is the first comprehensive critical edition of this text since 1823. It
contains new or corrected collations of several manuscripts.
The collected evidence suggests that OG Song of Songs, as preserved for us in the witnesses, was a
homogeneous translation, but continuously subject to revision in comparison to a multiform and
changing Hebrew text. It was the work of a Jewish translator of modest skill, working perhaps about the
beginning of the common era. Its text-form served as the basis for all later Old Greek manuscripts, which
in turn were the bases for other translations.
The translation appears to have been a relatively sober attempt to represent each element in its HebrewVorlage by a corresponding Greek element. There are no indications that its translator interpreted the text
allegorically, but its consistent formal equivalence with the Hebrew resulted in a Greek text that was just
as multivalent as the Hebrew--open to allegorical interpretation on a wide variety of levels. Some of its
scribes provided aids for the use of readers: divisions of sense-units and rubrics (headings in red ink) to
identify changes in speaker.
The rubrics interpret the Song as a narrative dialogue. The rubrics in the Song have no known precedent in
late antique manuscripts of drama and dialogue. Instead, they appear to have been a new genre of
interpretive material. The Greek rubrics focus on the narrative level of the text rather than its allegorical
interpretation. The rubrics of Codex Sinaiticus bear a literary relationship with rubrics in several later Latin
manuscripts. Their use in both Greek and Latin is examined. Redaction criticism is used to speculate
about the development of the rubrics from a hypothetical Greek predecessor.
The "Song of Songs" as a Drama in the Commentators from Origen to the Twelfth Century (1983)
Joseph R. Jones
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41153051
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Les didascalies au Cantique des cantiques dans la Bible de Lucca, Biblioteca Capitolare Feliniana 2
Les_didascalies_au_Cantique_des_cantiques_dans_la_Bible_de_Lucca_Biblioteca_Capitolare_Feliniana_2
La Bible d’Alexandrie: Le Cantique des cantiques. Translated and introduced by Jean-Marie Auwer
Jean-Marie Auwers (French)
https://academic.oup.com/jts/article-abstract/73/1/282/6538749
b. 1958
uclouvain.be
Jay Curry Treat
https://www.academia.edu/86238252/L...of_Songs_and_its_earliest_manuscript_witnesse
Abstract
Lost Keys: Text and Interpretation in Old Greek "Song of Songs" and Its EarliestLost Keys: Text and Interpretation in Old Greek "Song of Songs" and Its Earliest
Manuscript WitnessesManuscript Witnesses
AbstractAbstract
The earliest extant interpretation of the entire Song of Songs is its Old Greek translation. A critical edition
of the Old Greek text is provided in the format of the Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint Study
(CATSS) Variants Project. This is the first comprehensive critical edition of this text since 1823. It
contains new or corrected collations of several manuscripts.
The collected evidence suggests that OG Song of Songs, as preserved for us in the witnesses, was a
homogeneous translation, but continuously subject to revision in comparison to a multiform and
changing Hebrew text. It was the work of a Jewish translator of modest skill, working perhaps about the
beginning of the common era. Its text-form served as the basis for all later Old Greek manuscripts, which
in turn were the bases for other translations.
The translation appears to have been a relatively sober attempt to represent each element in its HebrewVorlage by a corresponding Greek element. There are no indications that its translator interpreted the text
allegorically, but its consistent formal equivalence with the Hebrew resulted in a Greek text that was just
as multivalent as the Hebrew--open to allegorical interpretation on a wide variety of levels. Some of its
scribes provided aids for the use of readers: divisions of sense-units and rubrics (headings in red ink) to
identify changes in speaker.
The rubrics interpret the Song as a narrative dialogue. The rubrics in the Song have no known precedent in
late antique manuscripts of drama and dialogue. Instead, they appear to have been a new genre of
interpretive material. The Greek rubrics focus on the narrative level of the text rather than its allegorical
interpretation. The rubrics of Codex Sinaiticus bear a literary relationship with rubrics in several later Latin
manuscripts. Their use in both Greek and Latin is examined. Redaction criticism is used to speculate
about the development of the rubrics from a hypothetical Greek predecessor.
The "Song of Songs" as a Drama in the Commentators from Origen to the Twelfth Century (1983)
Joseph R. Jones
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41153051
===============================================
Les didascalies au Cantique des cantiques dans la Bible de Lucca, Biblioteca Capitolare Feliniana 2
Les didascalies au Cantique des cantiques dans la Bible de Lucca, Biblioteca Capitolare Feliniana 2
Le texte du Cantique des cantiques ne présente aucune didascalie qui indiquerait quel personnage parle et à qui il s’adresse. De telles précisions font leur apparition dans quelques manuscrits de la Bible grecque (dont le Sinaiticus) et dans de
www.academia.edu
Les_didascalies_au_Cantique_des_cantiques_dans_la_Bible_de_Lucca_Biblioteca_Capitolare_Feliniana_2
La Bible d’Alexandrie: Le Cantique des cantiques. Translated and introduced by Jean-Marie Auwer
Jean-Marie Auwers (French)
https://academic.oup.com/jts/article-abstract/73/1/282/6538749
b. 1958
Jean-Marie Auwers
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