[…] σὺν τὸν οὐρανὸν σὺν τὴν γῆν (Gn I, 1 Aquila): Il decisivo contributo esegetico-speculativo di Giovanni Filopono a un apparente monstrum sintattico

The essay shows the philological, exegetical, and speculative reasons that led Aquila to use the unusual syntagm σὺν τὸν οὐρανὸν σὺν τὴν γῆν in his translation of the Hebrew ת ה א ם ו שםי ת ה א ארץ) Gn I, 1). The insightful and decisive contribution of John Philoponus’ De opificio mundi will be emphasised. Not only does Philoponus not consider this translation to be a syntactic monstrum (as, for instance, Hieronymus does ) but he grasps its philosophical depth about the contemporaneity of the creation of heaven and earth on ‹day one› of the Hexaemeron.