Meanings
- especiallynot comparablehuman sciencesRelating to or originating in one or more recensions (censuses or editions).
The Greek position of "the priests," chaps. xxvii. 16; xxviii. 5; is evidently recensional, as the two passages are so similar and stand so near to each other.
1889, George Coulson Workman, “The Variations—Transpositions”, in The Text of Jeremiah; or, A Critical Investigation of the Greek and Hebrew […] , Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, →OCLC, page 1312 more examples
While the variations for large communities, however, exhibit only a trifling range from recensional epoch to another; those for their several component groups or departments when compared with each other, or each with its correlative issue in different years, become both unsteady and wide […]
1862 September 9, J. Whitehead, M.D., “Notes on Causes of Mortality”, in The Medical Times and Gazette, volume 2 for 1862, London: John Churchill, page 246The recensional variation found in some tractates suggests the possibility that at an early stage of the – oral (?) – transmission there was no urtext, or that passages not stemming from the urtext entered into the text at this time.
2020, Chaim Milikowsky, “7.6 Philological practices: Hebrew”, in Philipp Roelli, editor, Handbook of Stemmatology: History, Methodology, Digital Approaches, De Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 494
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