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El Texto Antioqueno de la Biblia Griega. I I I . 12 Crnicas.By NA TA LI O FERN NDEZ MA RC OS and JOS R A M N BUSTO

S AI Z , with the collaboration of MARA VICTORIAS P O T T O R N O DA Z- CA RO and S. PETER CO WE .

P p . lxv+157. (Textos y Estudios 'Cardenal Cisneros' dela Biblia Polglota Matritense, 60.) Madrid: Instituto deFilologa del CSIC, 1996. ISBN 84 00 07585 4. Paper n.p.

T H E Antiochene text of the Greek Bible, traditionally associatedwith the name of Lucan of Antioch, has long attracted the attention of scholars. Since the publication in 1963 of DominiqueBarthlmy's Les devanciers d'Aquila, however, this distinctive

text has taken on a much greater importance, since it turns out tobe the best witness, in 2 Sam. 11:2-1 Kings 2:11 and 1 Kings22-end of 2 Kings (Thackeray's and y8), to the earliest formof the Greek translationof these books, the rest of the manuscripttradition having undergone the influence of the