Antonio Piñero on the Greek New Testament of the Complutensian Polyglot
In 2014, scholars marked the five-hundredth anniversary of the completion of the New Testament volume of the Complutensian Polyglot Bible. One of the commemorative conferences was held at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where I studied under Antonio Piñero and earned my PhD in Ancient World Studies (Greek Philology). A second, less widely known gathering took place at the Universidad de Alcalá in Alcalá de Henares. In fact, it was there that the editors of the Polyglot worked so diligently and ultimately produced the crown of Spanish philology. That setting mattered. The term Complutensian derives from Complutum , the Latin name for Alcalá de Henares. Although the modern Complutense University is located in Madrid, the great polyglot project sponsored by Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros belonged historically to Alcalá. Five centuries later, scholars returned to that setting to reconsider the intellectual, linguistic, historical, and textual significance of the work. The...
