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Biblical referentials
Augustine, De Pascha 212, 1
(SC 116, p. 176 , l. 18)
Vulgate, John 10, 30
(ed. Weber, II, p. 1678)
Biblical referentials
AUGUSTINE,
De Pascha 212, 1
(SC 116, p. 176 , l. 18)
Ego et
Pater
unum
sumus
HOLY
SCRIPTURES
Modern biblical referential:
Vulgate, John 10, 30
(ed. Weber, II, p. 1678)
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Different canons and versifications
Lower-case manuscript 669
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Alexandrinus, Mark
Biblical referentials in BIBLINDEX
• translations into modern languages:
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Traduction Œcuménique de la Bible (TOB), nouvelle édition révisée, Cerf/Bibli’O, 2010
The New Revised Standard Version With the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, 1989
• ancient languages:
– KITTEL R., ELLIGER K., RUDOLPH W., SCHENKER A., Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia,
Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart, 1997.
– RAHLFS A., Septuaginta, id est Vetus Testamentum Graece juxta LXX interpretes,
2 vol., Stuttgart, 1935, 19504.
– ALAND K. et B. et alii (éd.), The Greek New Testament, Deutsche
Bibelgesellschaft-United Bible Societies, Stuttgart 1966, 19934.
– WEBER R., FISCHER B., GRIBOMONT J. et alii, Biblia sacra juxta vulgatam
versionem, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1969, 19944, 20075.
– The Old Testament in Syriac according to the Peshiṭta version, ed. on behalf of
the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament by The
Peshiṭta Institute Leiden, Brill, Leiden 1972-.
– The Zohrab Bible (Venice, 1805).
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Analysis of patristic texts
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Analysis of patristic texts
A textual unit
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX, Parable 1, § 4
Cumque Timor retro de vicinia et virtute
inimicorum et tarditate fugae causaretur :
« [Vade, (inquit Prudentia), retro Satana,
scandalum es nobis]. [Fortitudo nostra et laus
nostra dominus et factus est nobis in salutem.] »
• Vg : Vade retro me Satana Mc 8, 33 ≠ ; Vade post me Satana
scandalum est mihi Mt 16, 23 ≠
• Vg : fortitudo mea et laus mea Dominus et factus est mihi in
salutem Ex 15, 2 ≠
Typology of references
Biblical
references which
do not refer to
verses
Biblical
references
related to verses
• Case A: Allusion to a biblical set
(stretch, group of discontinuous
verses)
• Case B:Use of a biblical proper name
or a very common word or phrase
• Case C: Quotation of a single verse or
a continuous series of verses
• Case D: Composite set of verses
possibly nested within each other
Typology of references
Case A
• Allusion to a biblical set
(stretch, group of
discontinuous verses)
Case B
• Use of a biblical proper
name or a very common
word or phrase
Case
A
Case
B
Typology of references
CASE
C
• Composite set of verses
possibly nested within each
other
CASE
D
• Quotation of a single verse
or a continuous series of
verses
Case
C
Case
C
Case
D
Specifications of biblical references
1. Differences
from the text of
the biblical
referential
2. Text with
parallels: the issue
of intrabiblical
relationships
3. Explicit
quotation
4. Quotation being
used several times
5. Quoted author
quoting
6. Nothing to
report
1. Differences from
the text of the
biblical referential
1. Omissions
2. Translation
3. Transliteration
4. Lexical changes
5. Morphosyntactic changes
1. Differences from
the text of the
biblical referential
Vnde ad Hebraeum recurrens inueni pro
‘pane doloris’ scriptum esse ‘leem aasabim’,
quod Aquila interpretatus est ἄρτον τῶν
διαπονημάτων,
id est ‘panem elaborationum’
(JEROME, Ep. XXXIV ad Marcellam, 2).
2. Text with
parallels: the issue
of intrabiblical
relationships
1. OT quotations in the NT
2. OT internal quotations
3. Synoptic gospels
2. Text with
parallels: the issue
of intrabiblical
relationships
AUGUSTINE, In Iohannis
euangelium tractatus
JOHN
34, 2: “Mirantur quod
dictum est a domino Iesu
Christo: ego sum lux
mundi.”
8, 12: Iesus dicens ego sum
lux mundi
44, 5: “Quamdiu, inquit,
sum in hoc mundo, lux
sum mundi.”
9, 5: quamdiu in mundo sum
lux sum mundi
3. Explicit
quotation
4. Quotation
being used
several times
5. Quoted
author
quoting
E.g. Letter of the Gallic Churches to pope
Eleutherius, quoted in EUSEBIUS OF
CAESAREA, Ecclesiastical History IV, 2.
3. Explicit
quotation
Allusion to Rev 1:9:
"your brother and companion."
4. Quotation
being used
several times
☐ quote attributed to a character
☐ quote taken from a known other work
☒ quote taken from a quoted work
GALLICI MARTYRI, Epistula ad
Eleutherium
5. Quoted
author
quoting
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