Eusebe d'Emese: Commentaire de la Genese. Texte armenien de l'edition de Venise (1980). Fragments grecs et syriaques. Translated by FRANCOISE PETIT, LUCAS VAN ROMPAY, and JOS J. S. WEITENBERG.

Abstract

The writings of Eusebius of Emesa, the fourth-century biblical exegete and Christian theologian, are now considerably more accessible to the scholarly world, thanks to the publication of this new edition of the Commentary on Genesis. The surviving Armenian, Greek, and Syriac texts appear on the book’s left-hand page and a literal French translation is printed on the right. The volume is divided into three parts, sections of which have been previously published and sections of which are completely new. In Part I, the Armenian text of the Commentary on Genesis is reproduced from Hovhannessian’s edition (Eusèbe d’Émèse: Commentaire de l’Octateuque, 1980), accompanied by a freshly revised French translation prepared by Lucas Van Rompay and Jos Weitenberg. In Part II, the editors reprint Eusebius of Emesa’s Greek fragments on Genesis as recovered from the writings of Procopius of Gaza by Françoise Petit (La Chaîne sur la Genèse, I–IV, 1991–6), appending a French translation commissioned for this volume. The Syriac fragments in Part III are reproduced from Jacques-Marie Vosté and Ceslas Van den Eynde’s Commentaire d’Išocdad de Merv sur l’Ancien Testament (1950), with a modestly revised version of Van den Eynde’s 1955 French translation. The present volume therefore gathers together the fruit of many decades of painstaking research.