Simone De Beauvoir on Acts 17:12

From: clayton stirling bartholomew (c.s.bartholomew@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Wed Dec 16 1998 - 14:43:43 EST


I wonder what Simone De Beauvoir would have said about the way women are
slighted by the scribe (editor or whatever) of Codex Bezae in Acts 17:12.

In the received text (NA27) Acts 17:12 gives the women in Beroea a
rather propionate treatment, but Codex Bezae rewords it and sends the
women to the back of the bus.

ACTS 17:12 NA27

POLLOI MEN OUN EX AUTWN EPISTEUSAN KAI TWN hELLHNIDWN GUNAIKWN
TWN EUSCHMONWN KAI ANDRWN OUK OLIGOI.

ACTS 17:12 Codex Bezae

TINES MEN OUN AUTWN EPISTEUSAN, TINES DE HPISTHSAN, KAI
TWN hELLHNWN KAI TWN EUSCHMONWN ANDRES KAI GUNAIKES
hIKANOI EPISTEUSAN.

Metzger suggests that the scribe was primarily clarifying the grammar
but he admits that there may have also have been a move here to down
play the importance of the women in this passage.

-- 
Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
Three Tree Point
P.O. Box 255 Seahurst WA 98062

PS

I seed my posts with spelling errors, e.g. "loan wolfs", just to give you folks practice in textual emendation. My last post actually had "not" for "now" in the post script which really made the sentence really difficult to scan.

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