The article deals with the problem of the origin of the so-called “Western readings” in the earliest textual stratum of the Old Church Slavonic version of the Psalms. Deter- mining their textual source represents a long-standing issue in the field of the textual transmission of this Old Testament book. The author’s basic thesis is that the underlying Greek text was not a ‘pure’ Lucianic text but one that contained a number of ‘Western’ readings. This is shown by a number of cases, in which the Vetus Latina and the OCS-Ps 1 have been found to be in textual agreement with the oldest Georgian redaction of the Psalms. The concomitant appearance of the so-called “Western readings” in very diverse traditions supports the conclusion that they may have belonged to a different, hitherto untraced, text-type of the Septuagint. The Holy Land may be understood as a possible milieu of diffusion of the supposed Greek model that influenced both traditions of the Western and the Eastern Christianity.

The Old Church Slavonic Psalms and the Problem of the Western Readings: a reassessment.

Bruni Alessandro Maria
Membro del Collaboration Group
2021-01-01

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of the origin of the so-called “Western readings” in the earliest textual stratum of the Old Church Slavonic version of the Psalms. Deter- mining their textual source represents a long-standing issue in the field of the textual transmission of this Old Testament book. The author’s basic thesis is that the underlying Greek text was not a ‘pure’ Lucianic text but one that contained a number of ‘Western’ readings. This is shown by a number of cases, in which the Vetus Latina and the OCS-Ps 1 have been found to be in textual agreement with the oldest Georgian redaction of the Psalms. The concomitant appearance of the so-called “Western readings” in very diverse traditions supports the conclusion that they may have belonged to a different, hitherto untraced, text-type of the Septuagint. The Holy Land may be understood as a possible milieu of diffusion of the supposed Greek model that influenced both traditions of the Western and the Eastern Christianity.
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