ScriniumPub Date : 2023-12-28DOI: 10.1163/18177565-bja10089
Ioana Feodorov
{"title":"Introduction to the ERC TYPARABIC Project","authors":"Ioana Feodorov","doi":"10.1163/18177565-bja10089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-bja10089","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38562,"journal":{"name":"Scrinium","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139149825","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 : 2023-12-28DOI: 10.1163/18177565-bja10088
Habib Ibrahim
{"title":"Revisiting the Works of Ibn al-Sirrī (9th Century)","authors":"Habib Ibrahim","doi":"10.1163/18177565-bja10088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-bja10088","url":null,"abstract":"Some studies on Ibn al-Sirrī, a Christian author and translator from the 9th century, have remained unpublished since limited discoveries were made after 1987. Identifying the homilies discussed in this study will enable scholars to explore various aspects. First, it will facilitate the study of his theological vocabulary, which appears to represent a form of medieval ecumenical discourse. A thorough examination of his style may also uncover additional works attributed to him.","PeriodicalId":38562,"journal":{"name":"Scrinium","volume":"350 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139149145","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 : 2023-12-28DOI: 10.1163/18177565-bja10091
Lydia Spyridonova, A. Kurbanov
{"title":"Towards the Solution for Bédier’s Paradox in the Critical Editions of Greek Writers","authors":"Lydia Spyridonova, A. Kurbanov","doi":"10.1163/18177565-bja10091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-bja10091","url":null,"abstract":"Even though textual critics have tried to resolve Bédier’s paradox in various ways, it still remains an open question for philology. Most philologists argue that the prevalence of bipartite stemmata is a real feature of manuscript transmission. The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the defect of the common-error method itself, which inevitably leads to bifurcation at every level of the stemma or to recourse to contamination. It will also become evident that the factor that has complicated the problem is a bottleneck in transmission that occurred in the 9th–10th century. The failure of editors to recognise this could account for many false bipartite stemmata and even some false multipartite stemmata. The case of John Chrysostom’s panegyrics serves as an illustration of how this may deceive an editor.","PeriodicalId":38562,"journal":{"name":"Scrinium","volume":"4 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139148766","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 : 2023-12-28DOI: 10.1163/18177565-bja10087
Octavian-Adrian Negoiță
{"title":"Preliminaries on an Unknown Greek Translation of the Covenant of Muḥammad by Sophronios of Kilis","authors":"Octavian-Adrian Negoiță","doi":"10.1163/18177565-bja10087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-bja10087","url":null,"abstract":"This study offers preliminary remarks on a hitherto unknown Greek translation of the Covenant of Muḥammad by the Patriarch Sophronios of Kilis. The translation is preserved in a single miscellaneous codex entitled Sarakēnika, which was compiled between 1770 and 1780 by the renowned Phanariot scholar and bibliophile Nikolaos Karatzas, a former official of the Patriarchate of Constantinople (MS Gr. 112, Princeton University Library). As the inclusion of the translation in the codex is representative of the cultural transfers that took place between the Arabic-speaking and the Greek peoples during the 17th- and 18th-century Ottoman Empire, this study examines, in particular, the knowledge regimes for the production of the text. In the Appendix, an editio princeps of the translation is provided.","PeriodicalId":38562,"journal":{"name":"Scrinium","volume":"80 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139151870","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 : 2023-12-28DOI: 10.1163/18177565-bja10093
S. Frantsouzoff
{"title":"Self-Destruction of Idols in Arab Muslim Historiography","authors":"S. Frantsouzoff","doi":"10.1163/18177565-bja10093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-bja10093","url":null,"abstract":"The article deals with a potential source and the subsequent borrowing of the motif of the self-destruction of the pagan idols. This motif is common in Eastern Christian apocrypha and hagiographic tales and also in the Arab Islamic tradition. In Muslim historiography, among stories about the destiny of ancient Arabian images, such a motif is found only twice. Both legends are connected with pre-Islanic Ḥaḍramawt, the autonomous region in Yemen. One legend deals with the idol called al-Djalsad, an object of veneration mostly by a tribe of al-Sakūn. It was represented in the shape of a white anthropomorphic rock with a black head. The other tale narrates about the domestic statue made of cornelian that belonged to the local notable Wā’il b. Ḥudjr. The subject of the spontaneous fall of idols appears to reflect a rivalry, especially in the spiritual sphere, between the tribal confederation al-Sakūn and the descendants of the indigenous sedentary population of Ḥaḍramawt. Their struggle for power in the early Islamic empire manifested in the most apparent way in Egypt, where they could borrow the motif of idols’ self-destruction from the Copts. Thus, in Chapter LXXIX of the Chronicle by John of Nikiu compiled in the late 7th–early 8th century AD obviously in Greek a tale about the childhood of St Theophilus, the Coptic Patriarch in AD 385–412, is preserved. According to it, in his presence, the statues of Artemis and Apollo became overthrown in a shrine situated in the district of Memphis.","PeriodicalId":38562,"journal":{"name":"Scrinium","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139151582","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 : 2023-12-28DOI: 10.1163/18177565-bja10086
Ioana Feodorov
{"title":"Sylvester of Antioch’s Arabic Books Printed in 1747 at Bucharest","authors":"Ioana Feodorov","doi":"10.1163/18177565-bja10086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-bja10086","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents the new findings connected to several Arabic books that have been discovered by TYPARABIC team members in libraries around the world, where they were catalogued in insufficient or inaccurate detail, which has led to their being kept hidden from scrutiny until now. Projects of reediting and translating these Arabic books, to allow their study by a larger academic community, are also presented herewith. One of these books is of utmost importance for the discussions that will take place in 2024, when 300 years from the split in the Church of Antioch will be commemorated through conferences and volumes of collected works.","PeriodicalId":38562,"journal":{"name":"Scrinium","volume":"297 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139152538","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 : 2023-12-28DOI: 10.1163/18177565-bja10092
Eugene I. Miroshnichenko
{"title":"Bishopric as an Ascent to Philosophy","authors":"Eugene I. Miroshnichenko","doi":"10.1163/18177565-bja10092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-bja10092","url":null,"abstract":"The article delves into the issue of Synesius of Cyrene’s Christianity. While scholars like D. Roques and Alan Cameron have argued that Synesius was a Christian due to his birth into a Christian family, the author disputes these presumptions. Instead, the author proposes that the question should be approached differently. Specifically, the problem lies not in determining whether Synesius was a Christian or a pagan but in understanding how he, as a Hellenic figure, interpreted Christianity. While we lack reliable information about whether he was ever baptized, we can confidently conclude – based on his view of the bishopric as a means to philosophy – that he did not adhere to Christianity in the traditional sense. Instead, Synesius could be considered a Hellenic believer who leveraged a Christian bishopric to sustain the traditional education and culture of Hellenism in the context of the Christian empire.","PeriodicalId":38562,"journal":{"name":"Scrinium","volume":"17 1‐2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139149405","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 : 2023-12-28DOI: 10.1163/18177565-bja10085
Rami Wakim
{"title":"The Commentary in the Melkite Lectionary","authors":"Rami Wakim","doi":"10.1163/18177565-bja10085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-bja10085","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates a little-known yet highly significant facet of the Arabic liturgical Gospel books – the commentary that was introduced into the Gospel readings from at least the 11th century to the 19th century, notably during the time of Patriarch Athanasios III Dabbās, the last publisher to include this commentary. This study aims to shed light on the origin and evolution of this commentary, categorize its contents, and evaluate its theological importance in the context of the Arab Christian tradition. By offering fresh perspectives on the composition of Lectionary commentaries, this research enriches our comprehension of the history and theology of the Arab Christian tradition.","PeriodicalId":38562,"journal":{"name":"Scrinium","volume":"55 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139149485","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 : 2023-12-28DOI: 10.1163/18177565-12340004
Basil Lourié
{"title":"The Slavonic Solunskaja Legenda (“The Legend of Thessalonica”) and Its Syriac Original","authors":"Basil Lourié","doi":"10.1163/18177565-12340004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-12340004","url":null,"abstract":"The Slavonic eschatological apocryphon Solunskaja Legenda (“The Legend of Thessalonica”) is a direct translation from Syriac. The archetype of the extant recensions is datable to 893–972. It was created, in the First Bulgarian Empire, on the base of an earlier Slavonic text that did not mention the Bulgarians. The Sitz im Leben of the original Syriac recension and its Slavonic translation is a Syrian monothelete colony in North Macedonia (then, a part of Byzantium) between 752/754 and 839/842. The legend echoed events related to a successful Syriac monothelete mission to a slavinia (Slavic enclave headed by an autonomous prince) in the region of Thessalonica in the 670s or 680s. The legend describes the creation of the first Slavonic alphabet, and it uses specific terminology for writing tools. In its Slavonic translation, this terminology was transliterated instead of being translated. It can be assumed that the translator wanted to introduce new terms into the Slavonic language in this way.","PeriodicalId":38562,"journal":{"name":"Scrinium","volume":"316 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139152383","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 : 2023-10-12DOI: 10.1163/18177565-bja10083
Dirk Krausmüller
{"title":"A Holy Muddle","authors":"Dirk Krausmüller","doi":"10.1163/18177565-bja10083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-bja10083","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Patriarch Anastasius of Antioch was one of the most important religious leaders in the later sixth century. He left behind a substantial oeuvre, which focuses on Christology and Trinitarian theology. He was most comfortable with exegesis of Scripture but had a shaky grasp of philosophical terms and concepts that informed the debate was shaky. This was already seen by Günter Weiss who offered a detailed analysis of the texts. I concur with Weiss’ judgement and limit myself to the discussion of aspects of Anastasius’ speculation that he had not dealt with.","PeriodicalId":38562,"journal":{"name":"Scrinium","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136057866","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}