Andreas text-type
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The Andreas text-type is a form of the text of the Book of Revelation found in some manuscripts of Revelation, it is named after Andreas of Caesarea, (563–614) whose manuscript followed this text-type.[1] The Andreas text-type has also been called a subtype of the Majority Text in Revelation, which is divided into the Koine form of Revelation and the Andreas type of Revelation.[2]
Manuscripts belonging to the Andreas text-type are primarily found in manuscript of Andreas' commentary although there exists Andreas manuscripts which do not contain the commentary.[3]
Andreas manuscripts form one third of all Greek manuscripts of Revelation.[4]
Witnesses
[edit]Andreas' commentary is among the oldest Greek commentaries on Revelation.[5] Most subsequent Eastern Christian commentators of the Book of Revelation have drawn heavily upon Andrew and his commentary,[6] which was preserved in about 100 Greek manuscripts,[7] and was also translated into Armenian, Georgian, and Slavonic.[8] His commentary was so influential that it preserved the specific Andreas text type of Revelation.[7]
The earliest possible witness to the Andreas text-type in Revelation is from the Codex Sinaiticus revisor, who seems to have followed the Andreas text-type.[9] Schmid numbered around 83 witnesses to the text, these include unicials such as 25, 88, 205, 209 and 632. [3]
The Andreas text was used by Erasmus in his creation of the Textus Receptus due to the usage of Minuscule 2814 and thus the text of Revelation in most Reformation-era translations follows the Andreas text-type.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ Caesarea.), Andrew (Archbishop of (2011-12-12). Commentary on the Apocalypse. CUA Press. ISBN 978-0-8132-0123-8.
- ^ Beale, G. K. (2013-09-07). The Book of Revelation. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4674-2230-7.
- ^ a b Elliott, James Keith (2010-12-17). New Testament Textual Criticism:The Application of Thoroughgoing Principles: Essays on Manuscripts and Textual Variation. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-19436-6.
- ^ Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature (2009). Exegesis and Hermeneutics in the Churches of the East: Select Papers from the SBL Meeting in San Diego, 2007. Peter Lang. ISBN 978-1-4331-0495-4.
- ^ Constantinou 2011, p. 7.
- ^ Constantinou 2011, p. 3.
- ^ a b Constantinou 2011, p. 41.
- ^ Baldwin, Barry (1991). "Andrew, archbishop of Caesarea". In Kazhdan, Alexander P. (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford University Press. p. 92. ISBN 0-19-504652-8.
- ^ Constantinou, Eugenia Scarvelis (2013-02-18). Guiding to a Blessed End: Andrew of Caesarea and His Apocalypse Commentary in the Ancient Church. CUA Press. ISBN 978-0-8132-2114-4.
- ^ Waltz, Robert B. The Encyclopedia of New Testament Textual Criticism. Robert B. Waltz.
Sources
[edit]- Andrew of Caesarea: Commentary on the Apocalypse. The Fathers of the Church, vol. 123. Translated by Eugenia Scarvelis Constantinou. Catholic University of America Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0813201238.