NAPS 2021 First Christian Scholiasts
Channel: Joel Kalvesmaki
Date: 2021-05-25

Presentation made for the 2021 annual conference of the North American Patristics Society. Since presenting the material, some important corrections are in order. First, Mai's edition of Didymus on Proverbs is very unreliable, and should be taken as only a start. Meredith Danezan is preparing editions of the scholia on Proverbs, which will help tremendously. Second, there is no evidence that Didymus himself wrote any scholia, as Evagrius did. When excerpts from Didymus appear in other Old Testament scholia collections, they appear to be drawn from running prose commentaries.