Institute for the Classical Tradition

ANRW II.20.1, pp. 359-420

The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs: Central Problems and Essential Viewpoints by M. de Jonge, Leiden Contents
Introduction	360
I. The Text	361
1. The Greek Manuscripts	361
2. Ancient Versions	362
3. The stemma codicum	364
4. Uncertainties with Regard to the Oldest Attainable Text	365
5. The Date of the Oldest Attainable Text	366
6. Consequences for the Use of the Present Text of the Testaments	368
II. Related Hebrew and Aramaic Material	370
1. Fragments of a Levi-Text	370
2. Non-Levi-Material	373
3. Genre, Date and Provenance of the Material Listed under 1 and 2	375
4. The Present Greek Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and the Aramaic and Hebrew (and Related) Material	379
5. Appendix. Were the Testaments Translated from Hebrew or Aramaic?	384
III. The Testaments as Collection of Farewell-Discourses	387
1. Introduction. Some Remarks on Method	387
2. The Framework of the Individual Testaments	390
3. The Biographical Passages	393
4. The Parenesis in the Testaments	395
5. The Predictions of the Future	398
IV. Different Stages in the Redaction of the Testaments? The Place of the Patently Christian Passages	405
1. Introduction	405
2. Some Examples of Literary-Critical Analysis	407
3. The Patently Christian Elements	412
4. Conclusion	420