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- Title: Is There an "Anti-Priscan" Tendency in the Manuscripts? Some Textual Problems with Prisca and Aquila.
- Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 2006
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
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"The most prominent couple involved in the first-century expansion of Christianity," as Jerome Murphy-O'Connor has put it, (1) Prisca and Aquila are also the best attested mixed missionary couple of the NT. Contemporary exegetes like to emphasize that the portrayal of Prisca and Aquila in the NT, and in Pauline epistles in particular, is remarkably positive. This refers especially to Prisca, who, according to Murphy-O'Connor, in some way must have been even "more important than her husband." (2) Florence Gillman describes her as "one of the most cosmopolitan and well-traveled women mentioned in the New Testament tradition." (3) Even though Prisca has been praised by a number of Christian authors throughout the centuries, this esteem does not seem to have been universal. It has been suggested that some sort of "anti-Priscan" endeavors can in fact be detected in a part of the NT textual tradition. In order to determine to what extent such claims can be substantiated, I propose to examine some text-critical variants in the NT passages dealing with Prisca and Aquila. The scrutiny of several of these readings may suggest that some scribes tendentiously "corrected" the text of Pauline epistles and Acts of the Apostles so as to diminish the role of Prisca. In most cases, however, one can think of a variety of other reasons that may have induced the scribes to modify a given text. What is more, since we do not have access to the minds of the copyists, which could allow us to establish their intentions and motives for introducing particular changes, we can only speculate, with greater or lesser probability, on why and how certain readings have come about. Speculation of this sort, especially when supported by some extrabiblical data, may turn out instructive for our purposes, and I shall engage in it to some extent. Nonetheless, I deem it even more interesting to interpret the results or, in other words, to describe the effect that specific readings have on the portrayal of Prisca and Aquila in the NT. (4)
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