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Theodotus (Fragments)

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Edition 1.0

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1.0

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Ian W. Scott

Ken M. Penner

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Penner, Ken M., and Ian W. Scott, eds. "Theodotus (Fragments)." Edition 1.0. No pages. In The Online Critical Pseudepigrapha. Edited by Ian W. Scott, Ken M. Penner, and David M. Miller. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006. Online:http://www.purl.org/net/ocp/theodotus.

February 1, 2011 - 9:29am | by Ian W. Scott

Text Status and Contents:

The eight surviving Greek fragments of Theodotus are preserved as quotations in Eusebius of Caesarea, who draws these extracts from Alexander Polyhistor (see Praep. Evang. 9.22.11). The text published here is based on the standard critical edition of Eusebius' Praeparatio Evangelica edited by Karl Mras (see below). These fragments are found in Eusebius as follows:

Fragment 1	Eusebius, Praep. Evang. 9.22.1
Fragment 2	Eusebius, Praep. Evang. 9.22.2
Fragment 3	Eusebius, Praep. Evang. 9.22.3
Fragment 4	Eusebius, Praep. Evang. 9.22.4-6
Fragment 5	Eusebius, Praep. Evang. 9.22.7
Fragment 6	Eusebius, Praep. Evang. 9.22.8-9a
Fragment 7	Eusebius, Praep. Evang. 9.22.9b
Fragment 8	Eusebius, Praep. Evang. 9.22.10-11

Print Editions:

Print Editions of Theodotus

Carl R. Holladay, Poets (vol. 2 of Fragments from Hellenistic Jewish Authors; TT, 30; PS, 12; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989).
This is the best print edition of Theodotus currently available. The text published by Holladay is identical to the text of this OCP edition, but Holladay also includes a select critical apparatus and very useful notes. Click here to purchase a copy of Holladay's print edition from the Society of Biblical Literature.
Denis, Concordance, 920.
H. Lloyd-Jones and P. Parsons, Supplementum hellenisticum (Texte und Kommentare 11; Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1983), 360-65.
Denis, Fragmenta, 204-7.
Felix Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (3 vols.; Leiden: Brill, 1954-69), No. 732. 3C.2.692-694.
W. N. Stearns, Fragments from Graeco-Jewish Writers (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1908), 100-105.
A. Ludwich, De Philonis carmine graeco-iudaico. Commentario qua orationes ad celebrandam diebus XXI et XXIII M. Mai XXIII (Königsberg: Ex officina Hartungiana, 1900).
C. Müller, Fragmenta historicorum graecorum collegit, disposuit, notis et prolegomenis illustravit, indicibus instruxit (5 vols.; Paris, 1841-1872), 3.217-19.

For further bibliography see DiTommaso, Bibliography, 1062-1065.

Sources for the Text of Eusebius

Karl Mras, Die Praeparatio Evangelica (2 parts; 2d ed.; vol. 8 of Eusebius Werke; ed. Édouard des Places; GCS 43; Berlin: Akademie, 1982-83).

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