NOTES

¹ See for instance the bibliography on the topic of nazwrai=oj in Matt 2,23 in the recent commentary by W. D. DAVIES – D.C. ALLISON, The Gospel according to Saint Matthew. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary (ICC; Edinburgh 1988-1997) II, 283-284. A majority of scholars make a connection between Matt 2,23 and LXX^B Judg 13,7; 16,17.

² N. FERNÁNDEZ MARCOS, The Septuagint in Context. Introduction to the Greek Versions of the Bible (Leiden 2000) 102-103; that LXX^A represents a later revision of the reading represented by LXX^B may be witnessed in at least two respects from the passages at hand. First, in 13,7 and 16,17 LXX^A conforms its reading more to MT by its consistent use of the Greek transliteration nazirai=oj where MT reads ryzn. Secondly, its unparalleled use of a#gioj in 13,5, ‘the boy will be (h(giasme/non nazirai=on) sanctified a Nazirite to God’, appears to be a retention on the part of LXX^A of the holiness concept so prominent in LXX^B.

³ FERNÁNDEZ MARCOS, Septuagint, 94-96; W.R. BODINE, The Greek Text of Judges. Recensional Developments (HSM 23; Chico 1980). See his conclusions regarding Barthélemy’s theory of the Vaticanus Greek text of Judg and the kai/ge recension, 185-186; See also W.R. BODINE, "Kaige and Other Recensional Developments in the Greek Text of Judg", BIOSCS 13 (1980) 45-57.

⁴ See n. 1 above.

⁵ O. PRETZL, "Septuagintaprobleme im Buch der Richter", Bib 7 (1926) 374-375.

⁶ E. ZUCKSCHWERDT, "Nazo4rai=os in Matth. 2, 23", TZ 31 (1975) 71-77.

⁷ See the response by H.M. ORLINSKY, "Problems of Kethib-Qere", JAOS 60 (1940) 30-45, to the monograph by R. GORDIS, The Biblical Text in the Making. A Study of the Kethib-Qere (Philadelphia 1937); See also H.M. ORLINSKY, "The Origin of the Kethib-Qere System: A New Approach", VT 7 (1959) 184-192.