Maria Konstantinidou: The double tradition of John Chrysostom’s exegetical works: revisions revisited.

The paper proposed here addresses the issue of a double manuscript tradition, evidence for which is found in most of St John Chrysostom’s exegetical works. One of these recensions has been traditionally viewed as a deliberate revision of the other—more ancient—one. It is suggested that it is an undertaking by a single person or scriptorium that affects all these works.The lack of modern critical editions of most of Chrysostom’s exegetical works, hinders the task of identifying the homilies involved and complicates any further investigation of the two recensions. However, it is still possible to draw valuable conclusions both regarding the works involved and—somewhat less accurately—regarding the nature of the revisions.This paper is primarily concerned with studying the interventions of the reviser(s) and determining whether they follow a pattern across John’s exegetical works (and, therefore, they are possible to attribute to the same source). Ultimately, the aim is to investigate the purpose and aims of such a project.