Canon List of the Council of Partaw:
And you shall all, clerics and laymen, have
sacred books for worship from the Old and from the New Testaments:
The Books of Moses, of Genesis, of Exodus, of Leviticus,
of Numbers, of Deuteronomy,
Joshua son of Nun,
Judges and of Ruth,
of Kingdoms IV,
the Days of the Books of Paralipomena II,
of Ezra II Discourses,
the Book of Job,
the Book of Psalms I, [or: I Book of Psalms],
of Solomon, III Books,
the XII Prophets,
Isaiah,
Jeremiah,
Ezekiel,
Daniel.
And from outside [i.e., of them] there shall be
assigned, for teaching of your greatly learned children, the Wisdom of Sirach. (Michael
E. Stone, “Armenian
Canon Lists I—The Council of Partaw (768 C. E.),” The Harvard Theological
Review 66, no. 4 [October 1973]: 480-81)
The Armenian translation of Apostolic Canon lxxxiv
is published in Kanonagirk’ Hayoc’, pp. 112f. A translation of this Armenian
text is offered here:
And all your clerics shall have holy books of
the Old and New Testaments,
Of Moses, Gensis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy,
Joshua,
Of Judges with Ruth,
Four Kingdoms,
The Days of the Paralipomena,
Two discourses of Ezra,
Job,
Of CL Psalms,
Of Solomon III,
XII Prophets,
Isaiah,
Jeremiah,
Ezekiel,
Daniel,
Maccabees.
And you shall have Sirach for the instruction of your children. (Ibid., 484)
5. Of especial interest is the
situation with regard to the Books of Maccabees. They are lacking altogether in
the Canon of Partaw, and are to be found at the end of the list of books given
in the Armenian version of the Apostolic Canon. In the Greek form of this
latter Canon the Books of Maccabees are to be found following Esther, at the
end of the series of historical books, in the middle of the list.
6. The position of Maccabees at the
very end of the list observed, in the Armenian version of the Canon of Laodicea.
In this case the books are missing altogether in the Greek version of the
Canon. This appears to indicate a special relationship existing between these
various lists of canonical books extant in Armenian.
7. The generally doubtful position
of the Books of Maccabees in the Greek Canon lists is quite clear. They occur
of course in the early Greek codices but are omitted from such early Greek Canon
lists of that of Melito (Swete, list 1), Athanasius (Swete, List 3), Cyril of
Jerusalem (Swete, list 4), and others.
8. It is of further interest to
observe that books so well established in the Canon of the Greek Bible as
Judith, Tobit, and Wisdom of Solomon do not appear in the Greek or Armenian
texts of the Canons discussed here. This, it seems to us, is more evidence of
the common tradition of these particular lists than it is reflection on the
position of these books in actual usage. (Ibid., 485-86)