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
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