A NEW EDITION of CODEX I (016): the WASHINGTON MANUSCRIPT of the EPISTLES of PAUL by JUSTIN SODERQUIST a THESIS SUBMITTED in PA
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A NEW EDITION OF CODEX I (016): THE WASHINGTON MANUSCRIPT OF THE EPISTLES OF PAUL by JUSTIN SODERQUIST A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES Master of Arts in Biblical Studies We accept this thesis as conforming to the required standard Dr. Kent D. Clarke, PhD; Thesis Supervisor Dr. Thomas A. Wayment, Ph.D.; Second Reader TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY March 2014 © Justin Soderquist i Copyright ©2014 by Justin Soderquist All rights reserved ii ABSTRACT Nearly a century has passed since Henry A. Sanders first published his editio princeps of the Washington Manuscript of the Epistles of Paul (Codex I or 016). Within that time, it has received very little scholarly attention. This new edition provides a fresh, conservative transcription based on two new image sets, and identifies all differences between the new transcription and Sanders. It additionally provides comprehensive lists of variants between Codex I, the Nestle-Aland 28th, and the Robinson Pierpont editions of the Greek New Testament. The new edition also provides valuable data surrounding the manuscript’s provenance, character, scribal habits, textual affiliation, and substantive variants. Several corrections to Sanders are offered, and the new transcription shows the effects of nearly a century upon the manuscript. This work seeks both to update Sanders, and to provide valuable data which will make the text of Codex I more readily accessible for future inquiry. iii Contents ABSTRACT ..................................................................................................................................................... iii LIST OF PLATES ............................................................................................................................................. vi INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................. 1 THE MANUSCRIPT ......................................................................................................................................... 2 Contents .................................................................................................................................................... 3 Date ........................................................................................................................................................... 4 Provenance ............................................................................................................................................... 6 Immediate Origin .................................................................................................................................. 6 Ancient Origin ....................................................................................................................................... 7 Physical Character ..................................................................................................................................... 8 THE TEXT ....................................................................................................................................................... 9 Terminal Nu............................................................................................................................................. 10 Terminal Sigma ....................................................................................................................................... 14 Incipits ..................................................................................................................................................... 17 Nomina Sacra .......................................................................................................................................... 20 Other Scribal Tendencies ........................................................................................................................ 31 VARIANTS .................................................................................................................................................... 34 Selected Notable Variants....................................................................................................................... 41 Textual Affiliation .................................................................................................................................... 47 ABOUT THE TRANSCRIPTION ...................................................................................................................... 60 Observations on Working with Digital Images ........................................................................................ 63 TRANSCRIPTION OF CODEX I ....................................................................................................................... 65 proj korinqiouj a ................................................................................................................................... 65 proj korinqiouj b ................................................................................................................................... 71 proj galataj ........................................................................................................................................... 80 proj efesiouj .......................................................................................................................................... 83 proj filippisiouj ................................................................................................................................... 87 proj kolassaeij ...................................................................................................................................... 91 proj qessalonikeij a .............................................................................................................................. 96 proj qessalonikeij b ............................................................................................................................ 100 iv proj ebraiouj ........................................................................................................................................ 102 proj timoqeon a .................................................................................................................................... 116 proj timoqeon b ..................................................................................................................................... 121 proj titon ............................................................................................................................................. 124 proj filhmona ....................................................................................................................................... 126 CONCLUSION ............................................................................................................................................. 128 BIBLIOGRAPHY .......................................................................................................................................... 137 v LIST OF PLATES Plate # Contents Page # 1 Appearance of the Washington Manuscript of the Epistles of Paul When Found 129 2 A. 1 Corinthians 12:16 (folio 6) 130 B. 1 Thessalonians 3:2-5 (folio 94) 3 A. 2 Thessalonians 1:1-3 (folio 100) 131 B. 2 Thessalonians 1:10-11 (folio 101) 4 A. Hebrews 13:16-18 (folio 138 from Sanders) 132 B. Hebrews 13:16-18 (folio 138 from modern color image set) 5 A. 1 Timothy 6:1-2 (folio 149 from Sanders) 133 B. 1 Timothy 6:1-2 (folio 149 from modern color image set) 6 A. 2 Timothy 1:1-3 (folio 152 from Sanders) 134 B. 2 Timothy 1:1-3 (folio 152 from modern color image set) 7 A. 2 Timothy 1:10-12 (folio 153 from Sanders) 135 B. 2 Timothy 1:10-12 (folio 153 from modern color image set) 8 All Extant Titles in Codex I (016) – missing 1 Corinthians and Ephesians 136 vi INTRODUCTION Initially esteemed as little more than a “blackened, decayed lump of parchment as hard and brittle on the exterior as glue,” the Washington manuscript of the Epistles of Paul has proved far more useful over the past century than originally expected.1 When Charles Lang Freer, a wealthy philanthropist and patron of the arts, purchased the manuscript from an Arab antiquities dealer in Egypt named Ali Arabi on December 19, 1906, neither party placed any real value on the damaged fragment. Its contents were unknown, and because of its “almost hopelessly decayed condition” it was simply thrown in with the purchase of 3 larger, more well preserved manuscripts “rather because of its association with them than from any supposed value of its own.”2 The significance of the damaged document has since become quite clear, although it and the other biblical manuscripts in the Freer collection are deserving of much more scholarly attention than has been allotted them over the past century.3 In addition to acquiring these invaluable manuscripts, Freer demonstrated his altruistic generosity and patronage by funding not only their transcription and publication, but also additional trips to Egypt that were organized in an effort to both obtain further information regarding the provenance of the documents as well as to secure, if possible, any additional manuscripts which may have also been associated with those previously purchased.4 Freer even made arrangements for his entire collection of art (including the manuscripts)