Marie-Odile Boulnois: The biblical text and its variants in the debate between Julian and Cyril : the case of Genesis 6,2 and 49,10

The biblical argument plays a considerable role in Julian’s controversy against Christianity and has certainly contributed to the "incomparable efficiency" of his work, as pointed out by his adversary Cyril of Alexandria. This communication will focus on two verses Gn 49, 10 and Gn 6, 2 invoked by Julian to refute the idea that Moses spoke, either of the coming of Jesus, or of an Only-Begotten Son of God. The specificity of this debate is that it concerns not only the interpretation of these verses, but the very form of the biblical text, its possible falsification or the existence of marginalia.