ScriniumPub Date : 2024-06-06DOI: 10.1163/18177565-bja10106
Ho Lun Donald Wong
{"title":"Building a Liturgical Identity through Baptism and the Eucharist: The Case of Didache","authors":"Ho Lun Donald Wong","doi":"10.1163/18177565-bja10106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-bja10106","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper proposes that the Didache crafts a liturgical identity for its community – an identity centred around Baptismal and Eucharistic rites, with which community members become both privileged celebrants and partakers. This liturgically oriented strategy differs from the more familiar theological or ethnic demarcation of communal boundaries. Furthermore, reading Didache as a liturgical identity-forming document potentially resolves a long-standing debate – whether Didache is an ad hoc compilation of mixed texts (e.g. Niederwimmer) or a unified corpus (e.g. Milavec). While disagreeing with Milavec’s conception of a “rule book”, this paper argues that Didache is a unified text that shapes a liturgical identity of its community. The sacramental arrangements (chs 7–10) effectively explain (and even necessitate) the placing of the “Two-Way” moral tractate (chs1–6) before, and the guidelines dealing with itinerant ministers (chs11–15) and the mini-apocalypse (ch.16) after.","PeriodicalId":38562,"journal":{"name":"Scrinium","volume":"30 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141379642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ScriniumPub Date : 2024-06-06DOI: 10.1163/18177565-bja10105
Seda Manukyan, Gohar Chatyan
{"title":"Fragments of Armenian Miniature Art of the Ninth Century (Bagratid Kingdom Era)","authors":"Seda Manukyan, Gohar Chatyan","doi":"10.1163/18177565-bja10105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-bja10105","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Regrettably, numerous examples of early Armenian miniatures have not survived to the present day. The era of Arab dominance had a negative impact on Armenian manuscript art, leading to the loss of the manuscripts copied between the VII and IX centuries and only a handful of copies and guard-leaf sewn into the manuscripts have survived from this period.\u0000In this study, we will focus on a particular guard-leaf fragment affixed into the Matenadaran manuscript (ms. M963), which is a palimpsest. The initial manuscript, employed as the foundation for the new one, is a Gospel written in բոլորգիծ երկաթագիր/bolorgits erkat’agir (the Armenian circular uncial script).\u0000The new manuscript dates back to the fourteenth century and is a Mashtots’ (ritual book). Deacon Յովհաննէս/John is its scribe and miniaturist, and it was commissioned by Bishop Stepanos. The guard-leaves found in the manuscript are believed to be remnants of the earlier Armenian uncial script manuscript into which the Mashtots’ was transcribed. This inference is drawn from a comparative analysis of the remaining traces of writing on other pages of the manuscript.\u0000The guard-leaves in the M963 manuscript are notable for their resemblance to Byzantine miniatures. These fragments represent another instance of Armenian miniatures from the ninth century, a comparative examination of which suggests the possibility that they were created in one of the scriptoria of the Bagratid kingdom, where familiarity with Byzantine artistic traditions was evident.","PeriodicalId":38562,"journal":{"name":"Scrinium","volume":"57 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141376495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ScriniumPub Date : 2024-06-06DOI: 10.1163/18177565-bja10104
Sergey Minov
{"title":"Western Anti-Judaism Goes East: Syriac Reception of the Miracles of the Virgin","authors":"Sergey Minov","doi":"10.1163/18177565-bja10104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-bja10104","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The article explores history of the reception of anti-Jewish hagiographical traditions of Western origin among Syriac Christians during the Islamic period by focusing on the textual tradition of the Miracles of the Virgin, a Western collection of Marian legends that was translated into Arabic during the thirteenth century and later on, during the nineteenth century, into Syriac. As an illustration, Syriac text and English translation of two relevant narratives from this work are offered: the Story of a young Frankish Jew and the Story of a Jewish boy.","PeriodicalId":38562,"journal":{"name":"Scrinium","volume":"24 38","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141379054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ScriniumPub Date : 2024-06-04DOI: 10.1163/18177565-bja10102
J. J. Lee
{"title":"Between Alexandria and Antioch: the Diverse Sources of Basil’s Homiliae super psalmos 45","authors":"J. J. Lee","doi":"10.1163/18177565-bja10102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-bja10102","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Patristic exegesis is often still viewed as a binary: Alexandria vs. Antioch, allegory vs. literal. While there are clear examples of interpreters who adhered to one school’s approach, there were many who sat somewhere between these two extremes. One notable example of this is Basil of Caesarea, who, when actually studied as an exegete, has often been miscast as a student of Antioch or Alexandria. An examination of Basil’s Homiliae super psalmos 45, however, demonstrates that the sources behind Basil’s interpretive efforts cannot be limited to one exegetical ‘school’ or another, but actually represent a diverse range of readings, from Origen of Alexandria to Eusebius of Caesarea to Diodore of Tarsus. In his christological reading of this psalm, Basil resembles the Antiochenes, while in his overall spiritual vision and penchant for allegory, he draws on Origen. The example of Basil demonstrates the complexity of the exegetical world of the early church and the non-binary lines of influence, as well as the need for scholars of patristic exegesis to recognize nuance and complexity in their treatments of these writers.","PeriodicalId":38562,"journal":{"name":"Scrinium","volume":"209 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141387213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ScriniumPub Date : 2024-04-15DOI: 10.1163/18177565-bja10101
A.V. Barmin
{"title":"The Epiclesis Debate at the Council of Florence, written by Ch. Kappes","authors":"A.V. Barmin","doi":"10.1163/18177565-bja10101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-bja10101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38562,"journal":{"name":"Scrinium","volume":"273 1‐4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140704176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ScriniumPub Date : 2024-03-21DOI: 10.1163/18177565-12340008
Vera Tchentsova
{"title":"Du combat pour la « juste foi » au péché politique : Pour une histoire du Synodikon de l’Orthodoxie, written by Radu G. Păun, Ivan Biliarsky","authors":"Vera Tchentsova","doi":"10.1163/18177565-12340008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-12340008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38562,"journal":{"name":"Scrinium","volume":" 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140221683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ScriniumPub Date : 2024-03-21DOI: 10.1163/18177565-12340006
Geoffrey D. Dunn
{"title":"An African in Rome","authors":"Geoffrey D. Dunn","doi":"10.1163/18177565-12340006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-12340006","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000At the end of the second century, Christianity in Rome existed as a federation of individual communities, despite the narrative provided in the fourth century by Eusebius. There was a multiplicity of leaders, of social backgrounds, of languages, of beliefs, and of practices among the Christians of Rome. How did the church of Rome maintain unity internally and externally in the presence of such diversity? By the end of the second century, with Victor, that forbearance came to a dramatic end. The best-known example is the Quartodeciman controversy over the dating of Easter. Other examples include his reaction to Monarchians, Montanists, and Valentinians. In itself, this is not evidence that Victor was attempting to act as sole bishop of Rome, but simply that he used the structures of the pluralist communities to push for greater theological conformity, which contributed to the centralisation of leadership in Rome. As a qualifier, it will be argued that he was not opposed to pluralism per se, but was opposed to it when he became aware of any particular threat divergence presented to Christian life and thought.","PeriodicalId":38562,"journal":{"name":"Scrinium","volume":" 32","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140388150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ScriniumPub Date : 2024-03-21DOI: 10.1163/18177565-12340007
I. Gritsevskaya, Viacheslav V. Lytvynenko
{"title":"Newly Found South Slavic Manuscripts of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries with the Pseudo-Athanasian Questions and Answers to Antiochus the Duke","authors":"I. Gritsevskaya, Viacheslav V. Lytvynenko","doi":"10.1163/18177565-12340007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-12340007","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper addresses the problem of an insufficient base of manuscript material for the study of the Slavonic translation of the Pseudo-Athanasian Questions and Answers to Antiochus the Duke (QAD). It begins with a brief survey of the two existing approaches to identifying the main groups of manuscripts and versions of the text (Lara Sels and William R. Veder) and alerts researchers to the fact that the number of examined witnesses today is too small to establish the real textual tradition of QAD. In the second part of the article, the authors present three newly found manuscripts as a way of partly responding to this problem and also suggest a new way of grouping them with those that have been previously studied.","PeriodicalId":38562,"journal":{"name":"Scrinium","volume":"105 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140224271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ScriniumPub Date : 2024-03-19DOI: 10.1163/18177565-12340005
Dirk Krausmüller
{"title":"Natural Will in John of Damascus’ De duabus Christi voluntatibus","authors":"Dirk Krausmüller","doi":"10.1163/18177565-12340005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-12340005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article focuses on John of Damascus’ treatise De duabus Christi voluntatibus, which seeks to establish the meaning of the concept of the ‘natural will’. John’s argument is dependent on the opuscula of Maximus. Yet he does not always follow Maximus’ lead. He claims that the mode of willing is always related to sin whereas willing of the good is natural. This refers not only to the irreproachable passions, which in Maximus’ Christology are needed to give a positive interpretation of Christ’s fear of death, but also to Christ’s eventual obedience to God. John makes it clear that this also applies to ordinary human beings. Obedience is in their case the free and self-determining decision to subject themselves to God as their natural lord and master. John gives the impression that the knowledge about the proper relationship between God and the human being is as spontaneous as the irreproachable passions.","PeriodicalId":38562,"journal":{"name":"Scrinium","volume":"53 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140230396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identification and Identity: Quest for the Armenian Martyrdom Sites in the Modern Times","authors":"Shushan Khachatryan, Hayk Hakobyan, Garnik Harutyunyan","doi":"10.1163/18177565-bja10090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-bja10090","url":null,"abstract":"The article deals with the role of Armenian Christian martyrdom sites and interrelated issues of national-religious traditions and identity formation around them in the modern period. As in the case of other Christian traditions and nations, the Armenian martyrs have been honored and become a part of national-religious identity. This article is an identification of the problem field and an attempt at an interdisciplinary examination of the questions mentioned above. Accordingly, some commonly Christian and Armenian regulations concerning the veneration of martyrs’ relics and martyrdom sites in the context of canonization, the source and place identification of the Armenian genocide martyrdom sites, as well as the martyrdom issues around Lenin-Stalin repressions are the scopes for examination in the present study.","PeriodicalId":38562,"journal":{"name":"Scrinium","volume":"2 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139148814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}