From: Stephen C Carlson (scarlso1@osf1.gmu.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 18 1996 - 01:00:07 EDT
KULIKOVSKY, Andrew wrote:
>As Michael Holmes pointed out above, Junia(s) is a Latin name, which
>means the Greek form should be Junios if it were maculine. He then
>concludes that it must be feminine and therefore Junia.
>But this is a little premature - the same argument can go the other
>way. The spelling Junias has an A rating - this means that there is
>overwhelming evidence that this spelling is original. But the feminine
>form should be spelt Junia not Junias. Using the same logic as above,
>it could be concluded that Junias is therefore masculine. Maybe, the
>suggestion that Junias is a short form of Junianus is not such a bad
>one. Surely, this can be counted as evidence.
I'd like to clear up this treatment of the evidence. The actual
spelling in Ro16:7 is IOUNIAN, in the accusative, which, if written
without accents as the earliest manuscripts were, is lexically
ambiguous as to the form Junia or Junias. What favors the feminine
form is that it was very common female name while the masculine form is
an unattested, conjectural form. Furthermore, the earliest manuscripts
that do include accents uniformly accentuate it as a feminine form.
A second point is that the A rating only extends to the unaccented
letters over the variant reading IOULIAN in p46, etc. Although the
UBS4 apparatus is misleading on that score (implying incorrectly that
the masc. IOUNIA=N has the A rating), Bruce Metzger's Textual Commentary,
p.476 explains:
The "A" decision of the Committee must be understood as
applicable only as to the spelling of the IOUNIAN, not
the masculine accentation.
If that's what the Committee really meant, then the apparatus to Ro16:7
should be corrected in the next edition. It is currently misleading
because it cites manuscripts without accents as support for the masculine
form.
Stephen Carlson
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