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An important new interpretation has just appeared, resolving longstanding questions about the puzzling biblical genealogies that appear mainly in several 10th-century Spanish manuscripts of Beatus of Liebana’s commentary on the Apocalypse (like the Morgan Beatus<\/i><\/a>). Jean-Baptiste Piggin<\/a>, approaching the whole question of this corpus of genealogies from an interest in informational graphics, has tabulated and linked to online versions, when available, of all the manuscripts<\/a>, and he has collated the texts of the principal recensions<\/a>. The recension closest to the original (and lost intermediate versions) is a very plain eleventh-century copy in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. The whole thing is available online (Cosimo de’ Medici would be proud! \u2014 here is a link to the first page<\/a>). Here is Esau’s family:
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\nAlone among the scholars who have studied these manuscripts, Mr. Piggin has now convincingly shown the whole to derive from a long scroll of Late-Antique origin, perhaps 4th or early 5th century! His work has been presented at the Oxford Patristics conference<\/a>, and is more fully explored in a series of amazing essay-pages on his website. Most interesting of all is that he offers a dynamically zoom- & scrollable version of a tentatively reconstructed archetype<\/a>, as well as the Bibl. Medicea Laurenziana witness<\/a>. This is ‘medieval genealogy’ \u2014 the exploration of genealogy as it was used and understood during the middle ages \u2014 at its finest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An important new interpretation has just appeared, resolving longstanding questions about the puzzling biblical genealogies that appear mainly in several 10th-century Spanish manuscripts of Beatus of Liebana’s commentary on the Apocalypse (like the Morgan Beatus). 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