For a summer class, I've been making my way through Henze and Werline, eds., Early Judaism and Its Modern Interpreters, 2d ed. (SBL, 2020), and I've just finished the essay by Robert Kugler on the testamentary literature. He discusses extensively only three testaments: Twelve Patriarchs, Moses, and Job.
It was the Testament of Job—probably written in Egypt in the first century—that formed the internet hole that I've just crawled out of, or not so much the Testament itself as its textual base.
The Testament of Job is attested in Greek, Slavonic, and Coptic. It was perhaps originally written in Greek. There are four Greek manuscripts, or really three independent manuscripts, as one of the four is judged to be a copy of another of our manuscripts. One of the manuscripts (S) may be lost.
- P = Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds grec 2658, XI century. The text of the Testament of Job on fol. 72r–97r. The manuscript is here; and the text of our work begins on the right hand side.
- P-2 = Paris, BN 938, a copy of P, XVI century, fol. 172v–192 (here, begins top left, but the images go backwards)
- S = Messina, Sicily, San Salvatore 29, 1307/8 AD. This manuscript is perhaps now lost (see DiTomasso 2012: 314 n. 6). Original publication by Mancini (1911, here, pp. 479–502). This manuscript is described by Mancini in his 1907 work Codices Graeci monasterii Messanensis S. Salvatoris (here, pp. 54–67).
- V = Rome, Vatican, Greek 1238, 1195 AD (see here, or here, or, better yet, here, starting at image 100).
It seems that there are two main editions of the Greek text, both produced within a decade of each other, using different manuscripts as a textual base, and edited by two well-known scholars in biblical studies.
- Sebastian Brock, 1967, used ms P as his base. here
- Robert Kraft, 1974, used mss S-V as his base. I can't find the edition online, but here is some information at google.
As for the Slavonic texts, sometimes it is said that there are three manuscripts, but Maria Haralambakis (2012) surveys nine Slavonic manuscripts. (See preview here.)
The earliest manuscript of the Testament of Job in any language is a fifth-century Coptic fragment in Cologne. Basic information here; an edition was published in 2009; a new fragment published in 2014; and a translation appears in MOTB 1.
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