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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture There is some of this in Beowulf as I recall, but give me a little while to work on it. --V. K. Inman Quoting Robert Kraft <[log in to unmask]>: > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > > My colleague, Jeff Tigay, has posed the following question, which I'm > forwarding > to the MEDTEXTL and MEDIEVAL RELIGION lists (further crossposting is > encouraged). I will relay relevant replies to Prof. Tigay. > > A similar phenomenon is well known from the Septuagint manuscripts of Genesis > 6.1-4 (sons of god // angels), and perhaps elsewhere in those materials. But > Prof. Tigay is especially interested in "pagan" texts and their variants. > > Bob Kraft, UPenn > > Forwarded message: > > Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 20:17:28 -0400 > > To: Robert Kraft <[log in to unmask]> > > From: Jeffrey Tigay <[log in to unmask]> > > Subject: question > > > > A question: In some mss of Porphyry's Introduction to Aristotle (Isagoge), > > instead of "the gods" the text reads "angels." The usual assumption is that > > a Christian copyist cleaned up the text to avoid the polytheistic > > reference. It occurred to me that this can hardly be the only instance of a > > monotheistic revision of some such expression in a pagan text. Have you > > ever come across this in Christian copies/translations/paraphrases of Greek > > works? > > > > Many thanks, > > > > Jeff > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > > > Jeffrey H. Tigay ([log in to unmask]) > > Ellis Professor of Hebrew & Semitic Languages & Literatures > > Graduate Chair, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations > > University of Pennsylvania > > 847 Williams Hall, Philadelphia PA 19104-6305 > > Tel. 215-898-6339 (department: 215-898-7467). Fax. 215-573-9617 > > http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jtigay > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > -- > Robert A. Kraft, Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania > 227 Logan Hall (Philadelphia PA 19104-6304); tel. 215 898-5827 > [log in to unmask] > http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/rak/kraft.html > > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME > to: [log in to unmask] > To send a message to the list, address it to: > [log in to unmask] > To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion > to: [log in to unmask] > In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: > [log in to unmask] > For further information, visit our web site: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html > ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html