127 Aminadab-Aram/Adam-Admin-Arni in Luke 3, 33* JACYNTHO LINS BRANDÃO This paper examines the issue of the variant readings of the names of Aminadab and Aram in the genealogy of Jesus, presenting the hypothesis that the reading Adam-Admin-Arni may illuminate the pretextual stages of Luke, when we consider the manner in which ancient writers worked. Proceeding from the OT, in the hypomnemata of Luke or his source the list from Adam to David was probably written down in columns, with the names one under the other, following the hereditary line, as is the usual form of genealogies. In this list, Aminadam and Arni proceed from Aminadab and Aram, a mistake that is paleographically justifiable, taking cursive script into account. Being a longer name, Aminadam would have been di- vided into two lines. As Luke’s genealogy is in ascending order, Aminadam would have generated two names, Adam and Amim. Admin proceeds from the latter, through the dittography of triangular letters in an uncial script. Keywords: Greek New Testament; Genealogy of Jesus; Textual Criticism; Hypomnémata of Luke. Of all the problems presented by the genealogy of Jesus in Luke, which generated a number of variant readings, the sequence of Aminadab is the most complex. The excerpt consisting of Aminadab and Aram as names included in a well-known canonical succession—the hereditary line from Jacob to David (Judah, Perez, Hezron, Ram, Aminadab, Nahshon, Salmon, Boaz, Obed, Jesse, David)—is present in the MT, in Ruth and I Chron, and in the LXX, as well as in the NT itself. Nevertheless, since at least the third century, the manuscripts of Luke have presented a number of divergent readings from the sequence Aminadab-Aram, greater than in relation to other names in the genealogy1. * The original research on wich this study was based, concerning the Greek Gospel of the Brasilian National Library (ms 2437), was funded by the Brazilian Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico – CNPq. 1 Cf. The Gospel According to St. Luke (Oxford 1984); J. Geerlings, Family E in Luke (Salt Lake City 1962); J. Geerlings, Family E and its Allies in Luke (Salt Lake City 1968); R. N. Champlin, O Novo Testamento interpretado versículo por versículo (São Paulo 1995); H. Heater Jr., “A textual note on Luke 3.33”, JSNT 28 (1986) 25-9; and R. J. Swanson, New Testament Greek Manuscripts: Variant Readings Arranged in Horizontal Lines against Codex Vaticanus (Sheffield 1995). Filología Neotestamentaria - Vol. XXIV - 2011, pp. 127-134 Facultad de Filosofía y Letras - Universidad de Córdoba (España)