Bangor University DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Repetitive prophetical and interpretative formulations in Luke's Gospel of Codex Bezae : an analysis of readings in D Welch Jr, Bobby Award date: 2015 Awarding institution: Bangor University Link to publication General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal ? Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 30. Sep. 2021 BANGOR UNIVERSITY REPETITIVE PROPHETICAL AND INTERPRETATIVE FORMULATIONS IN LUKE'S GOSPEL OF CODEX BEZAE: AN ANALYSIS OF READINGS IN D A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THEOLOGY IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF PH.D SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION BY BOB WELCH BANGOR, WALES, UK SEPTEMBER 2015 Copyright © 2015 by Author All rights reserved. ABSTRACT This dissertation is an analysis of a pattern of redactional doublets within the early 5th CE Greek-Latin bilingual New Testament manuscript of Codex Bezae (D), specifically in the Gospel of Luke. Seven doublets are examined in comparison with Codex Vaticanus (B). As background, the aspects of possible harmonisation, prophetical interpretation during the Second Temple Period, use of the Elijah/Elisha motif, and Jewish rabbinical hermeneutics, support the thesis that this pattern of specific repetition is representative of the author/redactor’s controlling hermeneutic. The conclusions of this study reveal that (1) this pattern is prophetical/affirmational in agreement with the aforementioned methodology during the period of the exemplar, and (2) the homogeneity of theological themes, i.e. soteriological, eschatological, and pneumatological, support an early date of origin in the 2nd century CE. 1 CONTENTS ABSTRACT .........................................................................................................................iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS................................................................................................... 4 DECLARATION AND CONSENT ...................................................................................... 5 TABLES ................................................................................................................................ 8 The Bezan Text ...................................................................................................................... 9 1.1. Background of the Text of Codex Bezae ...................................................................... 11 1.1.1. Codex Bezae and Montanism in the 2nd and 3rd Century ...................................... 13 1.2. Relevant Literature Overview ...................................................................................... 17 1.3. The Problem ................................................................................................................. 20 1.4. Thesis Statement ........................................................................................................... 23 1.5. Method .......................................................................................................................... 23 Textual Repetition ............................................................................................................... 28 2.1. Harmonisation .............................................................................................................. 34 2.1.1. Patristic Harmonisation ? ....................................................................................... 49 2.2. Doublets in the Synoptic Gospels ................................................................................. 55 2.2.1. Matthew’s Doublets ........................................................................................... 58 2.2.1.1. Repetition in the Context of Old Testament Quotations ............................ 65 2.2.1.2. Prophets and Righteous Persons ................................................................. 69 2.2.1.3. Interpretation: Doublet at 20:16 and 22:14 ................................................. 72 2.2.2. Mark’s Doublets ................................................................................................ 73 2.3. Summary Conclusion of Harmonisation and Doublets ................................................ 84 Prophetical Interpretation .................................................................................................... 88 3.1. Elijah: The Model of Covenant-Promise and Obedience ............................................. 90 3.2. The Transformation of Prophetical Interpretation ........................................................ 93 3.3. Rabbinical Interpretative Technique—Gezerah Shavah .............................................. 99 2 3.3.1. Analogous Meaning from the OT ........................................................................ 100 3.3.2. Categories of Gezerah Shavah and Usage Within the Qumran Scrolls and NT . 101 3.4. Repetitions in the Elijah/Elisha Narrative .................................................................. 104 3.4.1. Elijah—Priestly/Prophetic Interpreter of the Law ............................................... 109 3.4.2. Apodictic Law Use of poie/w .............................................................................. 120 3.4.2.1. Correction of Pharisaical Behaviour............................................................. 123 3.4.2.2. Salvific Proclamations .................................................................................. 129 3.4.2.3. Eschatological Aspect ................................................................................... 131 3.4.3. Analysis ............................................................................................................... 133 Structural Parallels ............................................................................................................. 136 4.1. Luke 1:17 .................................................................................................................... 140 4.2 Luke 4:18 ..................................................................................................................... 147 4.3. Luke 7:12-47............................................................................................................... 155 4.4. The Motion Words—Returning, Coming and Entering ............................................. 163 4.4.1. Return – e0pistre/fw and u9postre/fw ............................................................... 163 4.4.2. Go and Come – e!rxomai and poreu/w ............................................................... 164 4.4.2.1. The Variation of the Usage of e1rxomai ....................................................... 168 4.4.2.2. Changing Locations as Deictic Centres ........................................................ 169 4.4.2.3. Jesus as deictic centre ................................................................................... 173 4.4.2.4. The Travel Narrative to the Temple ............................................................. 184 4.4.3. Enter ei0se/rxomai................................................................................................ 188 4.4.3.1. Entering a house ........................................................................................... 189 4.4.3.2. “Entering” in terms of allusions ................................................................... 192 4.4.3.3. Summary ....................................................................................................... 198 4.5. Spirit and Power for Restoration ................................................................................ 200 4.6. Conclusion .................................................................................................................. 211 3 Redactional Doublets and Prophetical Formulations ........................................................ 214 5.1. Luke 1:28 and Luke 1:42 ............................................................................................ 219 5.1.1. The Text (Luke 1:26-29, 41-42) Critical Apparatus ............................................ 220 5.1.2. Commentary ........................................................................................................ 226 5.2. Luke 1:13, 60 .............................................................................................................. 230 5.2.1. The Naming of John ............................................................................................ 231 5.2.2. The Naming of Jesus ........................................................................................... 231 5.2.3. The Connection of John and Jesus ...................................................................... 232 5.3. Luke 9:27 and 21:27 ................................................................................................... 234 5.4. Luke 9:44 and 24:7 ....................................................................................................