Textual Family Research Articles

A Previously Overlooked Manuscript of Fragment Targum (EVR II A 371, National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg)

Abstract The Fragment Targums contain selections of verses from the Pentateuch and form a distinct textual family within the Palestinian Targum tradition. To date, our understanding of their textual tradition has been based on nine manuscripts (excluding those copied from printed texts). This article introduces another manuscript of Fragment Targum that has been previously overlooked. The article describes the manuscript’s content, provides a preliminary characterisation of the text’s relationship to the other extant witnesses of the Fragment Targums and the other Pentateuchal Targums, and considers some possible implications of this new witness for our understanding of the origins, purpose, and transmission history of the Fragment Targums.

El viaje a la raí­z: un nuevo modelo de crónica en tres autoras chilenas contemporáneas

A partir de la lectura de Volverse Palestina (2013) de Lina Meruane, Poste restante (2016) de Cynthia Rimsky y Destinos errantes (2016) de Andrea Jeftanovic, se propone un nuevo modelo de la crónica de viajes latinoamericana contemporánea: el viaje a la raí­z. Partimos de la hipótesis de que, al narrar el viaje al lejano y difuso origen familiar de las escritoras, los tres textos se alejan de las familias textuales hasta ahora predominantes e inauguran una nueva genealogí­a. En este sentido, el objetivo de este trabajo es describir su poética, al contrastar sus propuestas con las caracterí­sticas tradicionales del género. El resultado permite reflexionar acerca de la inmigración en América Latina desde una nueva óptica y confirma la maleabilidad de un género en constante cambio.

<em>Yā-btā l-lāḏī fī l-samāwāt…</em> Notas sobre antiguas versiones árabes del «Padre Nuestro»

El texto que Massignon creyera ser la muestra del más antiguo «Padre nuestro» en árabe, tal como se nos ha conservado no es sino una adaptación musulmana que queda lejos de poder representar una versión directa de la Oratio Dominica, lo cual obliga a rastrear las antiguas versiones árabes del «Padre nuestro» entre la producción literaria cristiana. En ésta, tanto las versiones orientales como las occidentales ofrecen lecturas distintas en función de su procedencia doctrinal: las orientales atienden, a grandes rasgos, a una doble clasificación, muestras ortodoxas y monofisítas, en tanto que las occidentales, además de evidenciar una compleja tradición textual de los textos bíblicos neotestamentarios, parecen reflejar, cuando menos y a simple vista, interferencias orientales de procedencia monofisita, que llevan a reconsiderar la naturaleza, las fuentes y las familias textuales de las traducciones que circularon por al-Andalus.

Reconstructing ‘John Lelamour’s’ Herbal: The Linguistic Evidence

AbstractTwenty years ago, George R. Keiser showed that the mutilated last quire of Lincoln Cathedral, Dean and Chapter Library, MS 91 had once contained a herbal written in Middle English. He discovered moreover that passages parallel to those reconstructable for the Lincoln manuscript appear in other texts, including an important work called John Lelamour’s Herbal after a name mentioned in its explicit, and concluded that Lelamour, an otherwise unknown fourteenth-century schoolmaster from Hereford, was the author of the original treatise that Thornton and other scribes used for the composition of their own herbals. The present article will present ample evidence which will demonstrate that Keiser’s hypothesis on a Herefordian pedigree for this textual family cannot be sustained any longer, and that the origins of this textual family should in fact be sought not too far from Scotland. A linguistic approach based on a collection of scribal modifications, both unconscious and conscious ones (i. e. copy mistakes and changes made on purpose by the several copyists), will be used for the task. This will reveal how linguistic variation between the several manuscripts can be profitably used to reconstruct the dialect of the original translation, which will here consequently be named Northern Middle English Translation of Macer Floridus’s De Viribus Herbarum (or Northern Macer for short).

Life Writing by the Gosse Family: Family Portraits in Scientific, Evangelical and Auto/biographical Discourses

ABSTRACTIt is widely recognised that Edmund Gosse’s Father and Son (1907) made a crucial intervention in the transition from traditional Victorian biography to modern life writing. This innovative text became a classic while Gosse’s other literary biographies were quickly forgotten. This article argues that the radical qualities of Father and Son were forged from Gosse’s position of being influenced by, and at the same time resistant to, a network of family memoirs. His father, Philip, constructed an idealised son who listens intently to his lectures about God’s Creation. Likewise, in her evangelical tracts, his mother Emily depicted young Gosse responding obediently to Christian discipline. Even in Gosse’s Life of Philip Henry Gosse (1890), the father’s voice dominates the son’s authorship, despite the latter’s occasional criticisms and veiled allusions. It was in Father and Son that Gosse finally asserted his freedom from those parental discourses that had defined his persona and determined his prospects. Gosse’s struggle to extricate himself from the legacy of textual family enmeshment produced a work of generic, linguistic, narrative, and allusive complexity. By creative misprision, Gosse carves for himself what Bloom terms ‘clear imaginative space’. Having severed himself metaphorically from his biological origins, Gosse embraces a literary kinship.

Fragments from the Earliest Parchment Manuscript of Eustratius’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

This paper presents two new fragments from a twelfth-century Byzantine luxury parchment codex, the earliest manuscript evidence of Eustratius’ commentary on EN 1. The new discovery sheds light on an important but hardly visible twelfth-century phase in the transmission of the Greek commentaries on EN 1-10, very probably in Constantinople and under the patronage of the court. A detailed analysis indicates that the early phase of the textual transmission seems to precede the period from which the collective transmission of the various larger sets of commentaries on EN 1-10 is attested (Vaticanus gr. 269, Laurentianus 85.1, Parisinus Coislin. 161). The textual family of the new fragments has remained in the shadows due to the success of the other branch, which was canonized by Robert Grosseteste’s Latin translation in the mid-thirteenth century, by the editio princeps (Venice, 1536), and bu Heylbut’s critical edition (Berlin, 1892). The specific features of the new Budapest fragments and its twin, Vaticanus gr. 320, may elucidate the transmission process of other Aristotelian commentaries.

Soil Organic Carbon of Soil Series from 2003 to 2010 in Korea

Soil organic carbon (SOC) of soil series is necessary to calculate soil C sequestration due to IPCC default categorized by climate regions and by soil types. The 3,400 thousand data were downloaded from agricultural soil information system and analyzed to get averages of soil order, soil series, and textual family for the three different soil management practices in Korea. The SOC content was 13.3±5.38 g kg -1 in paddy field, 13.7±7.19 g kg -1 in upland field, and 15.2±8.22 g kg -1 in orchard soil, respectively. As SOC in orchard was 10% greater than that in upland, orchard must be managed with applying compost. The SOCs of inceptisols, which was largely distributed in Korea, were 13.6±5.48 g kg -1 in paddy field, 14.1±7.38 g kg -1 in upland field, and 15.3±8.20 g kg -1 in orchard soil, respectively. The SOCs of alfisols were 13.6±4.96 g kg -1 in paddy field, 13.7±6.99 g kg -1 in upland field, and 15.6±8.59 g kg -1 in orchard soil, respectively. The SOCs of entisols were 11.7±5.16 g kg -1 in paddy field, 12.8±7.05 g kg -1 in upland field, and 13.7±7.81 g kg -1 in orchard soil, respectively. The SOCs of ultisols were 12.7±4.79 g kg -1 in paddy field, 12.7±6.22 g kg -1 in upland field, and 16.3±8.49 g kg -1 in orchard soil, respectively. The fact that soils containing greater clay content in textual family had also more SOC content revealed that SOC could be also dependent on some soil properties as well as soil order. Because SOC differences among soil series representing same textual family were greater than those among textual family, SOC differences should be mainly affected by management practices such as compost application.

Constructing dressing rooms in urban schools: Understanding family through book clubs with Latino and African American female adolescents

Because adolescence is a difficult transition where teenagers work to establish autonomy, an understanding of family becomes essential when exploring students' social contexts. The purpose of this article is to examine the space of book club as a metaphorical and actualized “dressing room,” where for one year 12 urban Latina and African American females used adolescent literature and conversations to understand their lives, communities, and families. These discussions were essential in that families function as part of their identities and as systems of both support and conflict. Ultimately, the girls used textual family relationships and each other as guides for their present situations and future potentialities.

Tradición e intertextualiad en la apocalíptica cristiana oriental. El motivo de los reyes de Etiopía y Nubia en el “Apocalipsis (árabe) del Ps. Atanasio” y sus <i>testimonia apocalyptica</i>

The present article deals with the motif of “the kings of Ethiopia and Nubia” in one of the textual families of the Arabic Apocalypse of Ps.-Athanasius. Through the analysis of the features which constitute this motif, our aim is to show how the authors of the Apocalyptic texts worked on the basis of a material which to a large extent was standardized. This material, which we label as testimonia , was used by these authors according to various circumstances. The task expressed throughout the apocalyptic texts was created and developed in the heart of a textual and literary tradition in which intertextuality acted like a determining structural mechanism in the shape, modeling and survival of this literary genre throughout the centuries within the several Eastern Christian communities.

Note sur la tradition manuscrite d'un passage disputé du discours 38 de Grégoire de Nazianze (BHG 1938)

In a small number of Greek MSS, Gregory of Nazianzus' 38th homily contains an addition of a few lines which does not belong to the original tradition of the text. This addition is edited here on the basis of 19 Greek MSS and two independent Syriac translations. The Greek MSS all belong to a well known textual family (family M according to Sinko's classification) and several of them were copied in Southern Italy. This case is an illustration of the existence of at least a cultural and well established link between the Near East and Southern Italy.

« The Transitus Mariæ : The tradition and its Origins »

This article discusses recent attempts to classify the early transitus texts and to determine which group of texts is the earliest. The Syriac Obsequies, which belongs to the same textual family as the Greek R and related texts, is of crucial importance here. This family emphasized Mary's fear of death and described her assumption to a paradise separate from heaven, where her body was placed under the tree of life and the soul replaced; a descensus followed, describing the visit of Mary and the apostles to hell and, perhaps, heaven. The development of the tradition is traced through R, the Latin texts and the Old English narratives.

The Messiah At Qumran: Are We Still Seeing Double?

New wine in old skins. evocative picture from Matt. 9:17 has fulfilled itself regularly in the relatively young field of Qumran research. single example will suffice to reveal the pitfalls for our present study. In the discipline of Old Testament textual criticism the accepted maxim that has provided the basis of all text-critical studies was, and still is to some degree, that there are three textual families in the Pentateuch-the LXX or Alexandrian text, the Samaritan Pentateuch or Palestinian text, and the MT or Babylonian text.' Outside the Pentateuch the text critic has relied on the LXX and MT to begin textual discussions. When the Qumran biblical texts began to be published in the 1950's, scroll scholars naturally began to organize their material by these categories. P. Skehan's Exodus in the Samaritan Recension from Qumran,2 F.M. Cross' 1953 preliminary publication of 4QSama, A New Qumran Biblical Fragment Related to the Original Hebrew Underlying the Septuagint,3 and D.N. Freedman's 1962 study on orthography, The Massoretic Text and the Qumran Scrolls, 4 are a sample of the state of the art of the day. scholarly community conceded and marched in lock step for nearly 30 years before E. Tov, a student of Cross, published the results of his own studies on 4QSama in The Textual Affiliations of 4QSama' and Determining the Relationship between the Qumran Scrolls and the

<em>La crianza del hombre</em>, otra versión judeoespañola del midráš hebreo <em>Yeŝirat havalad</em>

En este artículo se edita el texto de La crianza del hombre, el cual es otra versión judeoespañola del relato midrásico hebreo Séder Yeŝirat havalad, y que, al igual que la versión incluida en el Séfer Lel šimurim [vid. Sefarad XLVII págs. 383-406] pertenece también a la familia textual del Midráš Tanḥuma-Yelamedenu. Se estudian las diferencias entre las dos versiones judeoespañolas y también las que presenta la Crianza en relación con el texto hebreo.

The Wang Bi Recension of the Laozi

There are seventy-nine places in Wang Bi's Laozi zhu where the text of the Laozi transmitted over this commentary differs from quotations of it contained within the commentary. Building on the textual studies of Professor Shima Kunio, this essay demonstrates that the readings given in the commentary are supported in practically every case by a series of early quotations and texts of the Laozi, such as the Mawangdui manuscripts and the “Old Manuscripts” that form the basis of Fu Yi and Fan Yingyuan's editions. A comparison of all of these differences shows that Wang Bi's original text must have belonged to the same broad textual family as these early manuscripts, being most closely linked to the two “Old Manuscripts” and less directly related to the Mawangdui manuscripts. In most of the these cases, the textus receptus has been supplanted by the reading transmitted through the Heshang Gong commentary. Consequently, it is now necessary to replace the textus receptus of Wang Bi's Laozi with a conflated version of the two “Old Manuscripts” and, in some cases, the Mawangdui manuscripts.

A Computer-Assisted Study of a Textual Family in the Book of Ruth

A Computer-Assisted Study of a Textual Family in the Book of Ruth