The four canonical gospels present the consistent sequence ἀλέκτωρ + φωνέω for the cock’s crow in Peter’s actual denial and its prediction by Jesus. The compound ἀλεκτοροφωνία in Mark 13:35 is the only alternative lexeme for the cock’s crow and, due to its single occurrence in the Greek Bible a hapax legomenon. In this study I follow up the variae lectiones in Matt 26:34 and 26:75, where the compound is backed by considerable and distinguished textual witnesses. By means of a validation of the attestation of these variae lectiones in the established critical editions of the New Testament it will be shown that their representation is often insufficient and incomplete. A speculative scenario will be created on the basis of the quality of the attestation of ἀλεκτοροφωνία in Matt 26:34 and 26:75 in order to make the compound plausible as the original reading. In addition, all this relativizes the importance and validity of the term hapax legomenon.
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Vgl. hierzu R.J. Swanson, New Testament Greek Manuscripts: Variant Readings Arranged in Horizontal Lines against Codex Vaticanus: Matthew (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press; Pasadena: William Carey, 1995) iii-xiv, besonders vi-viii.
Angaben aus Swanson, New Testament Greek Manuscripts: Matthew, 275.
Vgl. v.a. K. Lake, Codex 1 of the Gospels and Its Allies (Text and Studies 7: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1902).
Vgl. M.A. Robinson/W.G. Pierpont, The New Testament in the Original Greek: Byzantine Textform (West Chester: Chilton Book Publishing, 2005). Ferner M.A. Robinson, „The Case for Byzantine Priority,“ TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 6 (2001;http://purl.org/TC; letzter Zugriff 09/02/2013). Hierzu vgl. Parker, An Introduction, 175-176, 198-200.
Laut G. Cavallo, Ricerche sulla maiuscola biblica (Studi e testi di papirologia 2; Florenz: Le Monnier, 1967) 67, ist das Pergamentblatt tendenziell eher auf das Ende des 4. Jahrhunderts zu datieren.
Vgl. die Ausgabe von A. Gasquet (Hg.), Codex Vercellensis. Pars prior (Collectanea biblica Latina 3; Rom: Pustet, 1914) 117 (Mt 26,34) und 123 (Mt 26,75). Gasquet füllt die Textlücke (lacuna) in Mt 26:75 mit dem Text aus Kodex b und setzt somit priusquam gallus cantet in eckigen Klammern. Ferner A. Jülicher (Hg.), Itala: Das Neue Testament in altlateinischer Überlieferung. 1. Matthäus-Evangelium (2. verb. Aufl. v. W. Matzkow/K. Aland; Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1972) 194 (für Mt 26:45): antequam gallus cantet im fortlaufenden Haupttext und für Kodex a an[[te galli]] cantum, das auf der Ausgabe von Gasquet beruht, in eckigen Klammern aber angibt, was „auch jetzt nicht mehr zu entziffern ist.“ Ferner wird für Mt 26:75 (200) – analog Gasquet – priusquam gallus cantet angeführt, während Kodex a hier lacuna aufweist.
Vgl. Joannis Philoponi, De opifici mundi, libri vii (hg. W. Reichardt; Leipzig: Teubner, 1897) 97-98. Ferner für eine sozio-kulturelle Einbettung von Text und Autor vgl. L.S.B. MacCoull, „The Historical Context of John Philoponus’ De Opificio Mundi in the Culture of Byzantine-Coptic Egypt,“ ZAC 9 (2006) 397-423.
Vgl. Makarios/Symeon, Reden und Briefe. Die Sammlung I des Vaticanus Graecus 694 (B). Teil 2: Die Logoi B 30-64, Register (hg. H. Berthold; GCS; Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1973).
Zu Photius vgl. J. Reuss (hg), Matthäus-Kommentare aus der griechischen Kirche (TU 61; Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1957) xxxix-xlv.
Nach Metzger, The Text of the New Testament, 61. Vgl. ferner ders., 170, 269.
Aland/Aland, Der Text des Neuen Testaments, 294. Analog auch Vaganay/Amphoux, An Introduction, 58: „The work of assimilation is especially apparent in the Gospels and above all in the Synoptics where attempts are made to do away with the slightest variation.“
Zu Harmonisierungen vgl. Aland/Aland, Der Text des Neuen Testaments, 294-295; Vaganay/Amphoux, An Introduction, 58-59; Metzger, The Text of the New Testament, 197-198.
Vgl. Aland/Aland, Der Text des Neuen Testaments, 285; Vaganay/Amphoux, An Introduction, 81.
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The four canonical gospels present the consistent sequence ἀλέκτωρ + φωνέω for the cock’s crow in Peter’s actual denial and its prediction by Jesus. The compound ἀλεκτοροφωνία in Mark 13:35 is the only alternative lexeme for the cock’s crow and, due to its single occurrence in the Greek Bible a hapax legomenon. In this study I follow up the variae lectiones in Matt 26:34 and 26:75, where the compound is backed by considerable and distinguished textual witnesses. By means of a validation of the attestation of these variae lectiones in the established critical editions of the New Testament it will be shown that their representation is often insufficient and incomplete. A speculative scenario will be created on the basis of the quality of the attestation of ἀλεκτοροφωνία in Matt 26:34 and 26:75 in order to make the compound plausible as the original reading. In addition, all this relativizes the importance and validity of the term hapax legomenon.
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