Isidorus episcopus Hispalensis: Expositio in Vetus Testamentum. Genesis. Edited by MICHAEL M. GORMAN and MARTINE DULAEY.
Michael Winterbottom
The editor states his purpose thus (p. viii): ‘An accurate edition of Isidore’s commentary on Genesis, based the testimony oldest manuscripts, was required by my project to publish a series early medieval commentaries Book Genesis.’ commentary, last edited Arévalo and printed in Patrologia Latina 83 under title Quaestiones Vetus Testamentum, is little more than patchwork comments earlier writers (clearly sourced below Gorman’s text well discussed Martine Dulaey pp. xxv–xliii); Augustine’s Contra Faustum De Civitate Dei are especially heavily drawn upon. I should have welcomed typographical indication places where Isidore making contribution own. Of codices antiquiores (see xv–xvi) eight relevant Genesis. Three incomplete, largely ignored without comment. interrelationships other five not discussed, though stemma supplied p. xiv. five, only three (A, T, F) reported consistently. do know what principle G R appear disappear. xiv) puts A F one side, T other. But it may be that this tradition whole concept misleading, at any rate higher reaches. Gorman glosses over unique character A, which offers he, argument, calls interpolations (printing them square brackets) but effect an entire new version. And indeed true, lesser extent, both as well.
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