134 Jacyntho Lins Brandão b) divided in this manner, Aminadab would have generated two names in the genealogy, in the order in which they appear: Adam and Amin; c) from the latter, due to the repetition of triangular letters, after the pu- blication of the book, that is, with the names written in uncials, the variants Α∆ΜΙΝ and ΑΛΜΙΝ would have been produced; d) the αμιναδαβ > αμιναδαμ and αραμ > αρνι shifts, only paleogra- phically possible in a cursive environment, may also have occurred in the hypomnémata. This way, the list may have aquired its form as presented in Luke: δαβιδ του ιεσσαι του ωβηδ του βοοζ του σαλμων του ναασσων του αδαμ του αδμιν18 του αρνι19 του εσρων του φαρεσ. If this line of reasoning is correct, the variant Adam-Amin-Arni should be considered an author’s reading, that is, generated not by the vicissitudes of the copying process, but in the stages prior to the pro- duction of the original20. Admitting this would represent a quite reason- able solution to an apparently unsolvable problem, enabling, from the possibilities stated heretofore, the following means of comprehending the textual history of this passage should be as follows: a) the original sequence, produced by the author, would be Adam-A(d)min-Arni; b) as this sequence differs from the one widely known through other sources, very early on it suffered corrections by copyists, which may have occurred in p4 (third century) and can be widely attested from the fifth century on. Jacyntho LINS BRANDÃO Faculdade de Letras Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Belo Horizonte, BRAZIL (jlinsbrandao@ufmg.br) 18 Variants in the uncials: αδμειν p4 B L / αλμειν Γ / αδμη Χ (note the alternation in the second position always with triangular letters: Α∆ / ΑΛ). 19 Variants in the uncials: αρνει A Β Γ / αρνι L X. 20 For more on the concept of authorial variant, see Dorandi, Le stylet, 155-177. I make use of the term in a broader manner, not in the sense that, after the publication of the work, Luke may have modified it. Note however that, reviving, and revising, an hypothesis put forth by F. Blass in 1895, M.-É. Boismard and A. Lamouille, Le Texte occidental des Actes des Apôtres (Paris 1984) 9, declare: “Luke wrote the first edition of Acts, of wich we find an echo in the ‘Western’ text; a certain number of years later he thoroughly revised his earlier work, not only from the point of view of style (as Blass emphasised) but also from the point of view of content. These two editions were subsequently fused into a single edition”. Cf. B. M. Metzger, The Text of the New Testament (New York – Oxford 1992) 294.