ScriniumPub Date : 2020-10-19DOI: 10.1163/18177565-00161p05
Hind Awad
{"title":"Some Aspects of Monastic Diets from Thebes","authors":"Hind Awad","doi":"10.1163/18177565-00161p05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-00161p05","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Egypt was the homeland of monasticism from at least the fourth century AD. The aim of this article is to investigate the consumption of fish and meat in the monastic diets of Thebes from the sixth to the eighth centuries AD, and other monastic sites of Middle Egypt, as well as in Palestine, where recent studies have illustrated monastic diets. This in turn could shed additional light on the case of Thebes.","PeriodicalId":38562,"journal":{"name":"Scrinium","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47236282","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 : 2020-10-19DOI: 10.1163/18177565-00160a07
B. Lourié
{"title":"Eustratius of Nicaea, a Theologian: About the Recent Publications of Alexei Barmin","authors":"B. Lourié","doi":"10.1163/18177565-00160a07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-00160a07","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Being the most prominent philosopher and theologian of his epoch (late 11th-early 12th cent.), Eustratius of Nicaea provoked important theological discussions in the fields of both Christology and Triadology. He was eventually condemned (1117) for his Christological views, but his Triadology faced a strong opposition as well. His Byzantine opponents unfavourable to the Latins rejected his logically consistent approach to the Trinity and developed their own non-consistent (paraconsistent) approach, whereas his 13th-century latinophrone opponent Nicetas “of Maroneia” demonstrated that Eustratius’s logically consistent Triadology is more naturally compatible with the Filioque.","PeriodicalId":38562,"journal":{"name":"Scrinium","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/18177565-00160a07","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41924770","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 : 2020-10-19DOI: 10.1163/18177565-00160a12
A. Andreev
{"title":"The Reform of the Hirmologion by the Russian Old Ritualists","authors":"A. Andreev","doi":"10.1163/18177565-00160a12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-00160a12","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this paper, the author presents new evidence for the reform of notated manuscripts undertaken by the Russian Old Ritualists (Old Believers) in the second half of the 17th century. The reform was independent of, though contemporaneous with the reform of notated manuscripts undertaken by those who agreed with the liturgical reforms of Patriarch Nikon. The author shows that the purpose of the Old Ritualist reform was to align the text of the notated Hirmologion with the grammatical rules codified in the Grammar of Meletii Smotritskii, as republished in Moscow in 1648, and with the text of the non-notated liturgical books printed at the Moscow Print Yard prior to the tenure of Patriarch Nikon.","PeriodicalId":38562,"journal":{"name":"Scrinium","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/18177565-00160a12","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42302733","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 : 2020-10-19DOI: 10.1163/18177565-00160a20
L. Gerd
{"title":"Petr Sevast’anov and his expeditions to Mount Athos (1850s): two cartons from the French Photographic Society","authors":"L. Gerd","doi":"10.1163/18177565-00160a20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-00160a20","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The Russian antiquarian and explorer of the Orthodox East Petr Ivanovich Sevast’anov was one of the first to take photos of the architectural monuments, art treasures and manuscripts of Mount Athos. During the 1850s he organized several expeditions. In 1856, Sevast’anov studied photography in Paris at the atelier of Belloc and bought the materials and equipment needed. In March of 1857, he arrived at Athos and started his work in St. Andrew’s Skete. With the assistance of the librarian of St. Panteleimon’s Monastery Azarii, Sevast’anov got access to many Greek and Slavonic manuscripts. In October of 1857, he returned to Paris and presented the results of his work in a photo exhibition, followed by a public lecture at the Academy on February 5, 1858. The recently discovered two large format cartons of Sevast’anov’s photos at the French Photographic Society, along with the correspondence preserved in his archives, are an important contribution to the history of Byzantine Studies.","PeriodicalId":38562,"journal":{"name":"Scrinium","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/18177565-00160a20","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41361816","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 : 2020-05-04DOI: 10.1163/18177565-00160a19
T. Aleksandrova
{"title":"The Syncretic Revelation of John of Gaza","authors":"T. Aleksandrova","doi":"10.1163/18177565-00160a19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-00160a19","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper suggests that John of Gaza’s poem Tabula Mundi which is in general considered to be an ekphrasis of a real picture that had once adorned winter baths in Gaza or Antioch, actually reflects the author’s personal cosmological beliefs and is an ekphrasis in form only. In the poem there are parallels both with the mystical narratives of the ascent to heaven, and with Christian apocalyptic teachings. However, John of Gaza’s ʻrevelationʼ is not about the end of the world, but about its infinity and wise structure. The form of ekphrasis may have been chosen for the sake of disguise, since in the time when John lived, the views reflected in his poem may have been considered heretical.","PeriodicalId":38562,"journal":{"name":"Scrinium","volume":" 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/18177565-00160a19","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41316510","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 : 2020-04-09DOI: 10.1163/18177565-00160a15
D. F. Bumazhnov
{"title":"Preaching Christology in the Roman Near East. A Study of Jacob of Serugh, written by Philip Michael Forness, 2018","authors":"D. F. Bumazhnov","doi":"10.1163/18177565-00160a15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-00160a15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38562,"journal":{"name":"Scrinium","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/18177565-00160a15","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49426951","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 : 2020-04-09DOI: 10.1163/18177565-00160a17
N. Yamada
{"title":"Pelagius’ View of Ideal Christian Women in his Letters","authors":"N. Yamada","doi":"10.1163/18177565-00160a17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-00160a17","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The Pelagians’ ascetical practices were aiming at neither a kind of elitism nor perfectionism, rather, they simply tried to instruct their women disciples on the physical and spiritual care management in Eastern Christian ascetic manners. Pelagius emphasized the free will of women and their dignity as being in the image of God. This was quite different from the negative evaluations of women’s free will by Jerome, Augustine, and later Western priests, but quite similar to the affirmative perspectives of women’s freedom of will by Eastern Church fathers like John Chrysostom. In this presentation, I would like to focus on the letters to Demetrias from Jerome, Pelagius, and Ps. Prosper; Pelagius’ letters to a widow and a married woman; and Chrysostom’s letter to Olympias. Critically considering the previous research on the letters to Demetrias (by A.S. Jacobs 2000, A. Kurdock 2003 and 2007, and K. Wilkinson 2015), I would like to evaluate the unique perspective that Pelagius offers of the ideal woman as described in the letters to Christian women, from an Eastern theological viewpoint.","PeriodicalId":38562,"journal":{"name":"Scrinium","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/18177565-00160a17","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46261401","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 : 2020-01-29DOI: 10.1163/18177565-00160A09
Anton D. Pritula
{"title":"Reading and Writing on Reading and Writing: Short Poetry on Flyleaves in a Manuscript of the Metrical Grammar (DCA 00065)","authors":"Anton D. Pritula","doi":"10.1163/18177565-00160A09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-00160A09","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The short pieces discussed in the paper were added between larger texts and on the flyleaves by the scribe himself. Thematically, the poems may be divided in two blocks: the first one contains poems on reading, studying grammar, and on the scribal activities, whereas the second one comprises poetry ascribed to Bar ʿEbrōyō on different topics. The manuscript under discussion – Bar ʿEbrōyō’s (1226–1286) Metrical Grammar (DCA 00065) – was written in 1552 by ʿAbdīšōʿ of Gāzartā, an East Syrian patriarch (1555–1570), poet and copyist.\u0000These small pieces forming short verse collections illustrate the complex processes that took place in the manuscript circulation and literary life during the Early Ottoman period. All the short poems were never published or studied before, and for that reason they are placed here in the Appendix in both Syriac original and English translation.","PeriodicalId":38562,"journal":{"name":"Scrinium","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45011266","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 : 2020-01-27DOI: 10.1163/18177565-00160a08
Anton D. Pritula
{"title":"What Kind of Poetry Would a Syriac Manuscript-Thief Read about Oneself?","authors":"Anton D. Pritula","doi":"10.1163/18177565-00160a08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-00160a08","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In the modern period, numerous notes appeared within the colophons, aiming to protect a manuscript from potential thieves by addressing various curses to them. Some of those curses obtained a verse form, mainly forming quatrains, the most popular genre form, suitable for various kinds of notes. The paper discusses a such pieces – never studied of published so far – that were composed and written by a scribe named Hōrmīz, son of ‘Abd al-Aḥad, who worked in the early 18th century in Kirkuk (Syriac Bēt Slōk),","PeriodicalId":38562,"journal":{"name":"Scrinium","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/18177565-00160a08","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45812569","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}