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The Gothic Evidence for “Euthalian Matter”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2011

James W. Marchand
James W. Marchand
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Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
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It is a well-known fact that, sometime between the 4th and 7th centuries, a recension of the NT, or at least of the Pauline and Catholic epistles, into thought-lines was made. This recension is attributed variously to Euthalius, to Evagrius, even to Pamphilius. In spite of the fact that its authorship is unclear, this recension into thought-lines, along with certain other matter which is normally found with it, is traditionally called “Euthalian matter” or “Euthalian apparatus.” There are two important problems concerning Euthalian matter which are at present unsolved: (1) the date of Euthalius (or of the author of the recension, whom I shall henceforth call Euthalius for convenience sake); (2) which parts of the Euthalian matter are to be ascribed to the original author?

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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 49 , Issue 3 , July 1956 , pp. 159 - 167
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Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1956

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1 E. von Dobschütz (“Euthalius Studien,” ZfK XIX, 2) was, as far as I know, the first to place quotes around the name Euthalius. Erhard, A. first proposed Evagrius as the author of “Euthalian Matter” (Centralblatt für das Bibliothekwesen (1891) VIII, 385–411Google Scholar). To my knowledge, E. Nestle is the only scholar who suggested Pamphilius as the author: “In any case, this ms. (H) is our principal witness for the recension of Pamphilius or, as it used to be called, the recension of Euthalius” (Nestle, E., Introduction to the Criticism of the Greek N.T., trans, by Edie, W., London, 1901, p. 188 f.Google Scholar).

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7 Cf. van den Hout, Michiel, “Gothic Palimpsests of Bobbio,” Scriptorium VI (1952), 91–93CrossRefGoogle Scholar. See also the present author's “Notes on Gothic MSS,” to appear in JEGPh.

8 The destruction of the Visigoths at the hands of Byzantine generals has always been the terminus post quern non for Gothic scholars. It seems extremely unlikely that any Gothic manuscript could have been written down after 555.

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15 Cf. Kauffmann, op. cit., p. 406. The first two lines are separated by ca. 1 cm., the second two lines by ca. 1 cm.; the third and the fourth vertical lines are separated by 6.5 cm.; the other lines are separated by 1 cm. each. The Latin begins in the eighth column, and is displayed on its side of the page in the same manner as the Gothic. The Gothic and Latin words are, of course, not separated; they are separated here for convenience.

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