Caught in Translation: Studies on Versions of Late-Antique Christian Literature

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-41706-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

Reihe: Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity

Ancient translations of late antique Christian literature serve to spread the body of knowledge to wider audiences in often radically new cultural contexts. For the texts which are translated, their versions are not only sometimes crucial textual witnesses, but also important testimonies of independent strands of reception, cast in the cultural context of the new language. This volume gathers ten contributions that deal with translations into Latin, Syriac, Armenian, Georgian, Coptic, Old Nubian, Old Slavonic, Sogdian, Arabic and Ethiopic, set in dialog in order to highlight the range of problems and approaches involved in dealing with the reception of Christian literature across the various languages in which it was transmitted.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Toca, Madalina

Batovici, Dan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Trajectory, Marginalia, Selection: Issues in the Study of Versions of Late Antique Christian Literature

Madalina Toca and Dan Batovici

1 Latin and Oriental Translations of the Epistola ad Timotheum de morte apostolorum Attributed to Dionysius the Areopagite

Caroline Macé and Michael Muthreich

2 The Armenian Translations of John Chrysostom: The Issue of Selection

Emilio Bonfiglio

3 The Armenian Reception of the Homilies of Jacob of Serugh: New Findings

Andy Hilkens

4 St. Isaac of Nineveh’s Gnostic Chapters in Sogdian: The Identification of an Anonymous Text from Bulayïq (Turfan)

Adrian Pirtea

5 Sacred Spices: The Syriac Reception of Gregory of Nyssa’s Homilies on the Song of Songs

Marion Pragt

6 Four New Syriac Witnesses to the Middle Recension of the Ignatian Corpus

Dan Batovici

7 The Reception of Isidore of Pelusium in Its Ancient Versions: Latin as a Case Study

Madalina Toca

8 Manuscripts and Margins: The Case of the Late Mediaeval Slavonic Hexaemeron Collection or Šestodnevnik and Its Greek Source Text

Lara Sels

9 Between Translation and Rewriting: The Nag Hammadi Corpus and the First Book of Enoch

Francesco Berno

10 Translating Greek to Old Nubian: Reading between the Lines of Ps.-Chrysostom’s In venerabilem crucem sermo

Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei and Alexandros Tsakos

11 A Fourth Ethiopic Witness to the Shepherd of Hermas

Ted Erho

12 A Byzantine Bureaucrat and Arabic Philosopher: Ibrahim ibn Yu?anna al-An?aki and His Translation of On the Divine Names 4.18–35

Samuel Noble

Manuscript Index

Über Autor(innen)

Madalina Toca is a PhD candidate in late antique Christianity at KU Leuven. She is completing her thesis on Isidore of Pelusium’s epistolary corpus, tackling issues related to the historical relevance of the letters, the formation of the corpus, and its reception in Greek, Latin, and Syriac.

Dan Batovici, PhD (2015), is an FWO Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at KU Leuven and has published extensively on the reception of early Christian books in Late Antiquity.