Research Catalog

Title

Didymus the Blind's commentary on Psalms 26:10-29:2 and 36:1-3 (P.BYU.1) / edited by Lincoln H. Blumell, with Thomas W. Mackay and Gregg Schwendner ; with contributions by Michael R. Trotter, Chiara Aliberti, Daniel W. Graham, and James L. Siebach.

Author

Didymus, the Blind, approximately 313-approximately 398

Publication

• Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Blumell, Lincoln H. (Lincoln Harris), 1975-
• Mackay, T. W. (Thomas W.
• Schwendner, Gregg
• Trotter, Michael R., 1987-
• Alberti, Chiara
• Graham, Daniel W.
• Siebach, James L.
• Brigham Young University

Description

xv, 210 pages : illustrations, facsimiles; 31 cm.

Summary

"This volume contains a completed edition of Didymus the Blind's commentary on Psalms 26:10-29:2 and Psalms 36:1-3 that was discovered in Tura in the early 1940s. In 1984/85 Brigham Young University acquired five folia comprising quinion eight (Pss. 26:10-29:2) and the first bifolium of quire sixteen (Ps. 36:1-3) of Didymus' psalm commentary; in total this material consists of twenty-two complete pages of Greek text. This volume contains an introduction to these papyri, a transcription (articulated, diplomatic and prosodic), an English translation, as well as notes and commentary, indices and plates. As these papyri have never been published and are the last known portion of Didymus' commentary on Psalms, they are very important and sure to be of interest to both papyrologists and scholars of early Christianity."--

Series Statement

The Brigham Young University Papyri ; volume I

Uniform Title

• Bible. Psalms XXVI, 10-XXIX, 2.
• Bible. Psalms XXXVI, 1-3.
• Brigham Young University papyri; v. 1.

Alternative Title

P.BYU.1

Subject

• Brigham Young University
• Bible. > Commentaries > Early works to 1800
• Bible. > Criticism and interpretation > Early works to 1800
• Bible. > Manuscripts (Papyri)
• Tura-Papyrus
• Bible
• Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) > Utah > Provo
• Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri)
• Manuscripts (Papyri)
• Utah > Provo

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Early works.

Note

• ""P.BYU Did." identifies part of a late-5th/early-6th century papyrus codex that was scattered after its discovery during the Second World War and is now partially recovered in various locations. In 1941 British military engineers discovered a hoard of at least eight papyrus codices in a subterranean cavern at Tura, about 10 miles outside Cairo, almost certainly in the very spot they had occupied since Late Antiquity. The Tura find restored otherwise unattested treatises by Didymus the Blind, by Origen, and by another unknown author. Five of the Tura codices contain Didymus's commentaries on principal books of the Old Testament, Genesis, Ecclesiastes, Job, Zachariah, and Psalms."--BYU Library, Digital collections, Didymus papyrus website (viewed October 28, 2019).
• "The Commentary on the Psalms filled Tura Codex V; and it seems likely that more than one codex would have been needed to hold the entirety of Didymus's treatise on Psalms. Like the other Tura codices, the Psalms Commentary was dismantled and scattered almost immediately after its discovery. Within weeks many pages were recovered by the Cairo Archaeological Museum. Portions of the codex are in Geneva and London. The University of Cologne archives 182 of the 288 pages -- 12 of at least 18 signatures -- that originally comprised the Tura Psalms codex. Finally, a portion of the codex is at Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah. Since surviving signatures cover only the portions of the Commentary between Ps. 20 and Ps. 44, it seems reasonable to suppose a separate codex or more must have held Didymus's work on the Psalms outside the range covered in Codex V, i.e. Ps. 1-19 and 44 ff."--BYU Library, Digital collections, Didymus papyrus website (viewed October 28, 2019).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-178) and indexes.

Language (note)

• Texts in Greek with English translation; notes and introduction in English.

Contents

Introduction -- Articulated Greek text -- English translation -- Diplomatic transcription -- Notes -- Appendix I: Psalms Catenae preserving Didymus -- Appendix II: Column and margin heights and widths.

Call Number

JFG 21-125

ISBN

• 9782503583709
• 2503583709

LCCN

2020288775

OCLC

1089240441

Author

Didymus, the Blind, approximately 313-approximately 398, author.

Title

Didymus the Blind's commentary on Psalms 26:10-29:2 and 36:1-3 (P.BYU.1) / edited by Lincoln H. Blumell, with Thomas W. Mackay and Gregg Schwendner ; with contributions by Michael R. Trotter, Chiara Aliberti, Daniel W. Graham, and James L. Siebach.

Publisher

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Brigham Young University Papyri ; volume I

Brigham Young University papyri; v. 1.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-178) and indexes.

Language

Texts in Greek with English translation; notes and introduction in English.

Added Author

Container of (expression): Didymus, the Blind, approximately 313-approximately 398. Eis Psalmous. 26, 10-29, 2. Greek. (Blumell)

Container of (expression): Didymus, the Blind, approximately 313-approximately 398. Eis Psalmous. 26, 10-29, 2. English. (Blumell)

Container of (expression): Didymus, the Blind, approximately 313-approximately 398. Eis Psalmous. 36, 1-3. Greek. (Blumell)

Container of (expression): Didymus, the Blind, approximately 313-approximately 398. Eis Psalmous. 36, 1-3. English. (Blumell)

Blumell, Lincoln H. (Lincoln Harris), 1975- editor.

Mackay, T. W. (Thomas W., editor.

Schwendner, Gregg, editor.

Trotter, Michael R., 1987- contributor.

Alberti, Chiara, contributor.

Graham, Daniel W., contributor.

Siebach, James L., contributor.

Brigham Young University.

Added Title

Commentary on (work): Bible. Psalms XXVI, 10-XXIX, 2.

Commentary on (work): Bible. Psalms XXXVI, 1-3.

Research Call Number

JFG 21-125