There was probably a large floating literature of sutras, often presenting several recensions of the same document worked up in different ways.
There were probably several recensions in which successive additions were made to the original nucleus.
One of the later Chinese versions alludes to the existence of two recensions (Nanjio, No.
It existed also in official writings of the Sasanian times, recensions of which, we possess in several Arab histories and in the Shah Nameh.
And the last recensions of the passage quoted from Pliny, aided by an inscription,[3] prove that Rectina cannot have been the name of the harbour described by Beule (ib.
A book, De miraculis, composed of extracts from Bede, was appended along with these three epistles to the later recensions of the Historia.
Such recensions of the Text proved simply fatal to the Deposit.
I give threerecensions of the story of Perrette, copied from English schoolbooks.
Excuse me, I forget no such thing; and for a very good reason, because such Recensions never occurred.
Bengel and Griesbach laid stress upon families and recensions of manuscripts, and led the way in departing from the received standard.
You forget that Recensions were made at Edessa or Nisibis and Antioch which issued in the Syrian Texts, and that that was the manner in which the change which you find so difficult to understand was brought about.
So the world then received at least two recensions of B mixed up in this edition, whilst B itself remained behind.
The actual tales as we get them were no doubt retold in much later times; and it is these late recensions that we have.
There are marginal readings which show that two different recensions existed once in Hebrew.
Much, however, may be done towards improving two of the recensions which now lie before us.
Each of the two recensions of the Greek must, however, be separately studied, before any restoration of the original Greek text can be attempted.
He therefore conceived the idea that perhaps both texts were Lucan, and represented two recensions by the original writer, and he reconstructed the history as follows.
A single compiler is not likely to have introduced double recensions of one and the same psalm (as Ps.
During the same period two other recensions made their appearance, that of Hesychius which was current in Egypt, and that of Lucian which became the accepted text of the Antiochene Church.
He accepted Griesbach's views as a whole, but starting from the knownrecensions of the LXX.
Instead of "Anna" the Chinese recensions have Vina; but Vina or Vinataka, and Ana for Sudarsana are names of one or other of the concentric circles of rocks surrounding mount Meru, the fabled home of the deva guardians of the bowl.
The editor had before him four recensions of the narrative; those of the Sung and Ming dynasties, with appendixes on the names of certain characters in them; that of Japan; and that of Corea.
For example, we have four different recensions of a very long display inscription, as well as literally scores of minor ones, also of a display character, from the later years of Sargon.
That the Annals itself existed in several recensions is indicated by the fact that, while there are no less than at least seventeen different duplicates of Column I, [Footnote: Le Gac, Introd.
The process by which these recensions were made is always the same.
Aside from a few minor inscriptions, our main source is again the official account which has come down to us in several recensions of different date.
The reasons for keeping the Sabbath which these two recensions give are different, as we have seen, and it is probable that the reason given in Deuteronomy was first.
But, before passing on to consider the substance of the Decalogue, it will be worth our while to consider what the full significance of these differing recensions of the Decalogue is.
Fundamentally therefore the two recensions are the same.
This edition represents a distinct South Indian recension, which seems to differ from that of the North about as much as the three recensions of the Ramayana do from one another.
Both recensions are of about equal length, omissions in the first being compensated by others in the second.
There is, moreover, some reason to believe that the Samaveda as a collection is older than at least the Taittiriya and the Vajasaneyi recensions of the Yajurveda.
These tworecensions are nearly related in language, having many forms in common which are not found elsewhere.
The Atharva-veda is extant in the recensions of two different schools.
These two later recensions must not, however, be looked upon as mere revisions of the Bombay text.
Even the original portion of the White Yajurveda must have assumed shape somewhat later than any of the recensions of the Black.
The new parts were incorporated before the three recensions which have come down to us arose, but a considerable time must have elapsed between the composition of the original poem and that of the additions.
We hear no more of the Indus and its tributaries; for the geographical data of all the recensions of the Yajurveda point to the territory in the middle of Northern India occupied by the neighbouring peoples of the Kurus and Panchalas.
There are two recensions of this play also, one of them belonging to Southern India.
Their recensionsof the text appear to have differed but little from each other.
After having been thus fixed, the fate of each of theserecensions was of course similar to that of any other text.
Considering the wide divergences, the writer would add that this probability can be established only upon the hypothesis of two recensions of Q; upon that hypothesis it would be granted by everyone.
His acceptance of this position is partially explained by the fact that he makes no distinction between the original Q and the recensions of it in the hands of Matthew and Luke; he also allows to Q much material (e.
Without the hypothesis of the two recensionsthis section would have to be assigned to totally different, perhaps oral, sources.
Assuming that Mark used either the original Q, or as near to the original of that document as we can yet get, the recensions used by Matthew and Luke would be perhaps thirty, certainly twenty, years later than that used by Mark.
This furnishes the clue for the analysis of Q into QMt and QLk, and for the assignment to these two recensions of Q of much material which has hitherto been assigned to unknown sources.
But since it occurs in the midst of so much Q material, it is better to assign it to different recensions of Q than to some other unknown source.
It is not necessary to have recourse to the recensions here.
Harnack is undoubtedly correct in saying, "The beatitudes certainly circulated in various recensions from the beginning.
This common source in the background might be the undifferentiated Q, and the immediate sources might be the two recensions of that document.
He seems to agree with Semler and others that the two Recensions are probably the result of manipulations of the original, the shorter form being more in ecclesiastical, the longer in dogmatic interest.
Thus, we find the twoRecensions of the Clementines, the two Recensions of the Acts of St Andrew, .
But decided differences are noticeable in the subject matter and style of the two Gemaras represented by the two recensions of the Talmud.
It should be kept clearly before the mind that the only difference between these two recensions is in the matter of commentary.
He seems to agree with Semler and others that the two Recensions are probably the result of manipulations of the original, the shorter form being more in ecclesiastical, the longer in dogmatic, interest.
This glossary has come down to us in various recensions all considerably later in date than the original work (the oldest copy is in LB.
Examples of the different recensions are given by Guidi, Atti della R.
Hug's system of recensions was devised as a corrective to those of Bengel and of Griesbach, which have been adequately discussed in Chapter VII.
For the recensions of Targum and Talmud, see Etheridge's "Hebrew Literature," pp.
One of the Greek recensionsalmost complete was found in the monastery of Athos; and an older, but less perfect one, was found in the Codex Sinaiticus.
The epistles to various churches and one to Polycarp ascribed to him have come down to us in three recensions differing from one another in extent, number and character.
The Three Recensions There were three recensions or versions of the Book of the Dead--the Heliopolitan, the Theban, and the Saite.
Summed up in a word, therefore, the Ignatian problem is this: which of these threerecensions (if any) represents the actual work of Ignatius?
Polycarp, to the Romans, and to the Ephesians, and these when compared with the same letters in the short and long recensions are found to be considerably abbreviated.
The Ignatian problem arises from the fact that we possess three different recensions of the Epistles.
It is noticeable that all five recensions are classed as Hinayanist, although (b) is said to be the Vinaya used by the Tibetan Church.
The relation of these to the other recensions is not clear.
The Hînayâna Vinaya comprises five very substantialrecensions of the whole code, besides extracts, compendiums, and manuals.
The Chinese Tripitaka contains no less than five recensions of the Vinaya, and the later pilgrims who visited India made it their special object to obtain copies of the most correct and approved code.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recensions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
