Scrinium Classical Antiquity

KINGMA, E., De mooiste onder de vrouwen. Een onderzoek naar religieuze idealen in twaalfde-eeuwse commentaren op het Hooglied. Verloren, Hilversum, 1993. 219p. Paperback. Series: Middeleeuwse studies en bronnen XXXVI. Nice copy. € 12.00 (Antiquarian)

KOEHLER, L., and W. BAUMGARTNER, (eds.), Supplementum ad Lexicon in Veteris Testamenti Libros. Brill, Leiden, 1985. 2nd ed. XL,1147-1267,125-227p. Original green cloth. Nice copy. € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

METZGER, B.M., The Text of the New Testament. Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1964. XI,268,XVIp. Original blue cloth. Spine gilt titled. Spine a little bit bumped. Edges a bit yellowed. Fore edge a bit rust stained. Signature on free endpaper. ‘Professor Metzger has already put his colleagues in his debt by a series of bibliographical publications, one devoted to the textual criticism of the New Testament. This is a field in which considerable advance has been made in the past thirty years and where an up-to-date handbook and guide to the beginner and to the non-specialist is lacking. In the work under review, the author seeks to expound ‘the science and art’ of this discipline (…). He has divided his treatment into three main sections, respectively dealing with the materials for textual criticism, the history of the New Testament textual criticism, and the application of criticism to the text of the New Testament, He appends a check-list of the Greek papyri of the New Testament, which notes of location and publication. The book (…) is intended to be for the beginner, but Metzger’s colleagues, even those who would claim to be specialists in his field, will find much to enrich their own learning in the bibliographical detail with which certain sections of the book are adorned. (…) Even regarded as an introduction to the subject it has some disappointing features. (…) Nowhere does Metzger give any sketch of the history of the text in ancient days: we gather from scattered remarks that he holds a modified view of the theory of local texts based on acts of recension, but he never gives us the historical background against which such a doctrine may be established and defended. (…) Everyone can gain much (..) from Metzger’s book: but it meets only one of two problems which are encountered in introducing students to this field.’ (J. NEVILLE BIRDSALL in The Classical Review (New Series), 1967, p.388). € 30.00 (Antiquarian)

PETIT, Françoise, (ed.), Catenae Graecae in Genesim et in Exodum. II. Collectio Coisliniana in Genesim. Brepols, Turnhout / University Press, Leuven, 1986. CXIX,(2),308p. Original green gilt titled cloth. Upper edge publisher's stained. Small sticker glued to paste-down endpaper. Series: Corpus Christianorum, Series Graeca, 15. € 70.00 (Antiquarian)

PRIEUR, J.-M., (ed.), Acta Andreae. Praefatio - Commentarius. Brepols, Turnhout, 1989. XXVI,416p. Original brown gilt titled cloth. Series: Corpus Christianorum, Series Apocryphorum, 5. Nice copy. ‘Prieur’s volumes on the Acts of Andrew are thorough, and very detailes, especially in their critical and textual analysis. Prieur’s first volume, Praefatio - Commentarius, describes the history of the text, the sources available to modern editors, and its likely construction. Other traditions concerning the life of Andrew are also considered. Part 2 of the first volume then discusses literary questions, such as author, sources, date, and includes a lengthy commentary on the contents of the speeches and prayers. About thirty pages of this section are devoted to Andrew’s famous prayer to the cross. Prieur also has a section dealing with the recurrent yet ambiguous sacrament found in the Apocrypha Acts, namely ‘sealing’. This is helpful too. A final section to this volume discusses the theological teaching and presuppositions of the apocryphal. This is a useful synthesis. Also of importance is the impressive list of alleged links between these Acts and those of Paul, Peter, Thomas and John (pp,385-406): such a list must be taken into account in any discussion of the literary interdependence and relative dates of these ancient Acts.’ ((J.K. ELLIOTT in Novum Testamentum, 1991, pp.377-379). € 135.00 (Antiquarian)

PRIEUR, J.-M., (ed.), Acta Andreae. Textus. Brepols, Turnhout, 1989. 423-848p. Original brown gilt titled cloth. Upper edge publisher's stained. Card listing manuscripts loosely inserted. Head spine slightly bumped. Still a nice copy. Series: Corpus Christianorum, Series Apocryphorum, 6. 'Prieur’s second volume is subtitled Textus. Here we find the text (and French translation) of the remains of the acts and martyrdom. (…) Prieur’s apparatus informs us section by section which manuscripts he used for his reconstruction and then proceeds to detail differences - including orthography - between them. (…) Prieur’s text volume also includes Gregory of Tours’ Life of Andrew. The Latin text and introduction to it are that of Bonnet’s edition of 1885: an apparatus, especially of orthographical variants, is included below the Latin text; notes of an exegetical nature occur on the pages of the facing French translation. Prieur’s edition is (…) a major scholarly edition, replete with exhaustive indexes.’ (J.K. ELLIOTT in Novum Testamentum, 1991, pp.379-381). € 125.00 (Antiquarian)

REHKOPF, Fr., Griechisch-deutsches Wörterbuch zum Neuen Testament. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1992. XI,140p. Hard bound. € 75.00 (Antiquarian)

SMID, H.R., Protevangelium Jacobi. A Commentary. Van Gorcum / Prakke & Prakke, Assen, 1965. 200p. Original blue gilt titled cloth with dust wrps. Dust wrps a bit edge worn and to back slightly yellowed. Series: Apocrypha Novi Testamenti. € 30.00 (Antiquarian)

STRANGE, W.A., The Problem of the Text of Acts. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (...), 1992. XIV,258p. Original blue cloth with dust wrps. Spine gilt titled. Series: Society for New Testament Studies, Monograph Series, 71. Nice copy. In the book of Acts, the so-called Western text departs from the alternative text in numerous points of detail. These divergences in the textual tradition of Acts have been the subject of renewed interest in recent years, with a notable concentration on Lucan traits in the Western text. The author of this study takes into account recent theories which have been proposed on the textual tradition of Acts, and puts forward an ingenious thesis (not considered hitherto) to explain the existence of two streams of textual tradition for the book. Analysis of a number of Western textual variants in Acts suggests that they may have arisen from the incorporation of marginal annotations into the text of Acts, but Lucan thought and language is indeed characteristic of these readings. Investigation of the non-Western textual tradition uncovers occasional signs of editing according to the interests of the second-century church. From this evidence Dr Strange proposes that Acts shared the fate of numerous other works of antiquity by being published posthumously; the work of two second-century editors is responsible for the remarkable divergence in the textual tradition of Acts.(Publisher's information). € 75.00 (Antiquarian)