Critical Edition of the Syriac pseudo-Clementine Oktateuch

Prof. Dr. Dr. Hubert Kaufhold

In 1856, Paul de Lagarde published, in Syriac and a Greek re-translation, a text from the Parisinus syr. 62 manuscript (olim Sangermanensis 38), which, like the Apostolic Constitutions, claims to have been written by the apostles’ disciple Clement. To distinguish it from these, Lagarde named the collection, which like its obvious model is also divided into eight books, Octateuchus Clementinus. Between 1907 and 1913, François Nau published in French translation the contents of two Vatican manuscripts containing a more complete version of the Octateuch. A critical edition of the complete text is not yet available, and is to be compiled, together with a German translation and philological commentary.