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John's Gospel The Coptic Translations of its Greek Text

:	Christian Askeland
:	John's Gospel The Coptic Translations of its Greek Text
:	Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
:	9783110281439
:	Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen TextforschungISSN
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:	CHF 138.20
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:	Christentum
:	English

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< >This monograph explores the history of the Coptic tradition of John's gospel, considering when these ancient Egyptian witnesses are profitable for determining the earliest readings of their Greek source text. The standard critical edition of the Greek New Testament cites the Coptic versions no fewer than 1,000 times in John's gospel. For these citations, that edition references six dialectally distinct Coptic translations: the Achmimic, Bohairic, Lycopolitan (Subachmimic), Middle Egyptian Fayumic, Proto-Bohairic, and Sahidic versions. In addition to examining these, this project considers newly published texts from the Fayumic and Middle Egyptian traditions. John's gospel is extant in more Coptic dialectal versions than any other biblical text. As a result, the gospel offers unique insight into the nature of the ancient Egyptian Christian communities.

< >Christian Askeland, Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal, Germany.

	Foreword	5
	Abbreviations	14
	Chapter I: Introduction and summary	15
	1. Project summary	15
	a. Central argument	15
	b. Project limitations	15
	c. Genealogy and chance	16
	2. Summary of contents	17
	a. Text and translation, chapters 2-3	17
	b. Manuscripts and traditions, chapters 4-5	17
	c. Interrelation of the Coptic versions, chapter 6	18
	d. Conclusions and considerations, chapter 7	19
	3. Method	19
	a. Statistics	19
	b. Terminology and citation	20
	c. Minimalism	21
	Chapter II: Translation technique	23
	1. Recent scholarship in literalism and translation technique	23
	a. Linguistics	23
	b. Septuagint studies	24
	2. The Sahidic and Classical Bohairic compared with the NA27	26
	a. Data collection	26
	b. Normal deviation in the Greek tradition	27
	c. Deviation between the NA27 and the Sahidic and Classical Bohairic New Testament	29
	d. Summary of results: Coptic and Greek equivalency in John’s gospel	35
	3. .a., e.te, te :: ..., ..-, ..	36
	a. The .a. word group	36
	b. Past tense, conjunctive, and circumstantial-relative asyndeton	38
	c. Coordinate conjunctions	40
	d. Intensive and emphatic .a.	40
	e. Disjunctive asyndeton	42
	f. Paraphrase/transmission	42
	g. Other	43
	h. Coptic .a. equivalents with no counterpart in the NA27	43
	4. Other Coptic particles	43
	a. d. :: ..	43
	b. ..d., ..te, µ.d., µ.te :: ...., ...., (....), ....	45
	c. µ.. :: ...	45
	d. ... :: ../...	46
	e. ... :: ...	47
	f. p.... :: .., ..... .., .....	47
	g. .... :: ....	47
	5. Further instances of translational variation	48
	a. Names	49
	b. Demonstrative pronouns	49
	c. Phonetic assimilation	50
	d. Infixes and number	50
	e. Stock phrases	51
	f. Ellipsis	52
	g. Distribution change	52
	h. Assimilation and memorization	52
	i. Amelioration	53
	6. Conclusions on translation technique	53
	a. Consistency and style in the Coptic versions	53
	b. Coincidental agreement between Coptic and expansionistic Greek witnesses	56
	c. Guidelines for Greek textual criticism	57
	Chapter III: Translation languages and citation method	59
	1. The linguistic unity of the Coptic dialects	59
	a. Result clauses	60
	b. Vocabulary	60
	c. Temporalization	61
	d. Focalization	61
	e. Summary of dialectal difference	62
	2. Greek-Coptic linguistic equivalence	62
	a. Articles	63
	b. Voice	63
	c. Tense and aspect	63
	d. Infinitive forms (Coptic conjunctive)	64
	e. Indicative and non-indicative moods	65
	f. Participles	66
	g. Determination	66
	h. Possession	67
	i. Clauses	67
	j. Word order	68
	k. Varia	69
	3. Further Greek-Coptic linguistic equivalence issues	70
	a. Definite articles	70
	b. Lexical non-equivalence (expansion and compression)	70
	c. Greek-Coptic loanwords	71
	4. Greek-Coptic linguistic equivalence and citation method	75
	5. Conclusions	75
	a. General caveats	75
	b. Categorizing variants	76
	6. An examination of the Coptic (co) citations	78
	a. Preliminary remarks	78
	b. Category one: manual edition citations	78
	c. Category two: specialist edition citations	83
	d. Category three: unreliable citations	89
	e. Summary of the Coptic citations (co)	92
	Chapter IV: The Sahidic translation of John’s gospel	93
	1. Introduction to the Sahidic tradition	93
	a. Manuscript tradition	93
	b. Sahidic: dialect, register or sociolect?	94
	2. The primary witnesses to John’s gospel in Sahidic	97
	a. sa1 Mark,	97
	b. sa4	103
	c. sa9	105
	d. sa10	106
	e. sa19	107
	f. ly	108
	3. The evolution of the Sahidic text	108
	a. The Schüssler Sahidic evolution hypothesis	108
	b. Sahidic variants contradicting the Schüssler hypothesis	111
	c. Sahidic variants supporting Schüssler’s contention	112
	d. Examples of unclear sa1 variants	113
	e. Assessing variation in the Sahidic tradition	114
	f. sa10	1