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The Text of Acts 19.1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

W. A. Strange
Affiliation:
(Holy Trinity Vicarage, Buarth Road, Aberystwyth, SY23 1NB, Wales)

Extract

The Western text of Acts presents the reader with numerous departures from the more familiar text found in the majority of witnesses. These variants often appear trivial, but on occasion they present substantial divergences from the majority text. One such variant is that found in Acts 19.1, dealing with Paul's route to Ephesus on his so-called third missionary journey.

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Short Studies
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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1 Δεῖ με πάντως τ⋯ν ⋯ορτ⋯ν τ⋯ν ⋯ρχομένην ποι⋯σαι εἰς '[εροσόλυμ. D (δέ for με and ⋯μέραν for second τ⋯ν: D) Ψ 88 104 326 383 436 614 629(Gk & Lat) 630 1505 (2495) Byz; d(Beuron 5) g(Beuron 51) w(Beuron 58) dem(Beuron 59) ard(Beuron 61) Michiganl 46 (Beuron 63) vgmss(Gregory 1260.1266.1700.231a); nedl; prov; gertcpl; syr; ethmss; Ephr.cat Chr Cass Thphyl].

2 Zahn, T., Die Apostelgeschichte des Lucas (Leipzig: Deichert, 1919/1921) 2.672–3Google Scholar (but see also id., Introduction to the New Testament [Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1909] 3.30)Google Scholar; Knox, W. L., St Paul and the Church of Jerusalem (Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1925) xxxxiGoogle Scholar; Williams, C. S. C., Alterations to the Text of the Synoptic Gospels and Acts (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1951) 56Google Scholar; Bruce, F. F., The Acts of the Apostles (2nd ed.; London: Inter Varsity, 1952) 353Google Scholar; Black, M., ‘The Holy Spirit in the Western Text of Acts’, New Testament Textual Criticism: Essays in Honour of Bruce M. Metzger (ed. Epp, E. J. and Fee, G. D.; Oxford: Clarendon, 1982) 164–5.Google Scholar

3 Aland, B., ‘Entstehung, Charakter und Herkunft der sog. westlichen Textes untersucht an der Apostelgeschichte’, EThL 62 (1986) 19.Google Scholar

4 Streeter, B. H., ‘The Primitive Text of Acts’, JThS 34 (1933) 237–8.Google Scholar

5 Streeter, ‘Primitive Text’, 237; see Ramsay, W. M., St. Paul The Traveller and the Roman Citizen (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1895) 263–4.Google Scholar

6 Streeter, ‘Primitive Text’, 237–8.

7 M-E. Boismard, ‘The Texts of Acts; A Problem of Literary Criticism?’, New Testament Textual Criticism (n. 2 above), 154–7.

8 The sequence ⋯γ⋯νετο…Πατελθεν has become εΠεν… τνεμα…ἕρχεται (sc. Παλος); Kilpatrick, G. D. suspected imitation of Attic usage in the historic present here: ‘The Two Texts of Acts’, Studien zum Text und zur Ethik des Neuen Testaments. Festschrift zum 80. Geburtstag von Heinrich Greeven (BZNW 47; ed. Schrage, W.; Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1986) 191.Google Scholar

9 Weiss, B., Der Codex D in der Apostelgeschichte. Textkritische Untersuchung (TU 2:1; Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1897) 94 n. 1Google Scholar; Metzger, B. M., A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (corrected ed.; London/New York: United Bible Societies, 1975) 469.Google Scholar

10 On this phenomenon, see Strange, W. A., The Problem of the Text of Acts (SNTSMS 71; Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1991).Google Scholar