Indice Griego-Hebreo del Texto Antioqueno en los libros historicos. Vol. 1: Indice general. Vol. 2: Indice de nombres proprios. By NATALIO FERNaNDEZ MARCOS, MARiA VICTORIA SPOTTORNO DiAZ-CARO, and JOSe MANUEL CAnAS REiLLO.

Abstract

One of the most significant contributions to the textual history of the Septuagint (LXX) has been the identification and gradual reconstruction of the so-called Antiochene (or Antiochian) Text. This was originally called the Lucianic Text (or Recension), but Antiochene/Antiochian is increasingly preferred, since this distinctive text type certainly has its origins long before the fourth century ce recension traditionally attributed to Lucian of Antioch. In fact, in some cases, it may well preserve a purer form of the Old Greek (OG) than the earliest major uncials (Vaticanus, Alexandrinus, and Sinaiticus). It survives chiefly in the L group of manuscripts (bo(r)c2e2) and in citations in the fourth-century Antiochene patristic writers, especially John Chrysostom and Theodoret of Cyrrhus. The Antiochene text has proved to be of particular importance in establishing the OG of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles. A landmark publication in this area was the reconstruction of the Antiochene text of these books by members of the CSIC in Spain, led by Natalio Fernández Marcos and J. R. Busto Saiz. El texto antioqueno de la Biblia griega, I–III (Madrid, 1989–96) is not only an essential tool for the study of the text history of Samuel–Kings–Chronicles, but also breaks new ground in presenting these biblical books in the way in which they would have been read and studied in a particular area of the Christian church, in this case, fourth-century Syria.