The Text of the Book of Odes in the Codex Vatican Reginensis Graecus 1 (= Rahlfs 55). The Song of Hannah (1Sam 2:1-10) as a case study

Abstract

The Odes are a collection of 14 hymns used today in some Christian liturgies that appears in manuscripts only starting in the 5th century. This biblical book has received little scholarly attention. The texts of the Odes are not simply copies of the biblical texts. Rather, they present many interesting variants of their source texts. This article deals with the textual variants from Ode 3 (the «Song of Hannah») vis-à-vis its biblical reference-text (1Sam 2,1-10) in order to show the differences between the Ode textual tradition and the one from which it is taken, focusing on the manuscript Rahlfs 55.