This paper deals with Theodoret's critical edition which is being prepared by the research-team of the Greek Bible in Madrid. The author explains the main reasons he has found to edit such a text as well as Theodoret's relevance for determining the lucianic recension in the books of Kings. He announces too the different problems presented by the whole manuscript-tradition. In the third part he analyses Theodoret's biblical quotations for 3-4 Kings recording a lot of new readings from the future edition that will change Theodoret's evidence in Brooke McLean's critical apparatus. At the end, he advances a new project consisting of the separate edition of the lucianic text in Kings and he exposes the advantages that such an edition would have not only for the general text criticism but for other areas of the Septuagint-research as well.

Un resumen de este artículo fue leído en la Sección de LXX del «X Congreso» de la Organización Internacional para el estudio del Antiguo Testamento (Viena, 22-29 de agosto de 1980)

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