Reception and elaboration of philosophy within the School of Nisibis. By the means of a commentary and an analysis of Barhadbesabba's The Cause for the institution of the teaching period in the schools (around 600 A.D.)

拟议的项目以跨学科合作的方式处理在波斯萨桑尼帝国之前的Nisibis学派对希腊哲学的接受和转变：从哲学的角度来看，必须调查哲学在这一东叙利亚学派传统中所起的作用以及那里发展了哪些哲学方法。为了达到这一点，关键是要处理叙利亚作家如何与亚里士多德经文合作的问题(到目前为止基本上被忽视)，这一问题从6世纪初开始在叙利亚语中出现。此外，从东方基督教科学的角度，我们打算询问Nisibis学派，鉴于其主要的古希腊知识传统，如何创造自己的形象，考虑到它周围的挑战，即多宗教的波斯帝国的萨桑德。这个问题与第一个问题密切相关，因为哲学在萨桑德帝国中的良好相关性与尼西比学派对希腊哲学思想的接受是分不开的。本项目旨在通过准确的评论和哲学分析，从历史和系统的角度对Barhadesabba的学校教学期制度的原因这两个问题做出贡献。这本书的作者在广义上理解了他的著作ALS哲学，这个词是在晚期获得的，最近被认为是尼西比斯学派思想史上最重要的来源。因此，我们打算通过分析它的哲学思想，通过追溯它的来源和萨珊帝国及其邻近地区剩余文献中的相似之处，以及从(东方)叙利亚文学传统中追溯它的来源和相似之处，来更全面地了解这个来源本身及其背后的学校传统。为了实现这些目标，该项目建立在马蒂亚斯·珀卡斯教授(古代和中世纪哲学)和PD博士亚历山大·席林(东方基督教和中世纪历史)的共同努力下，他在波斯帝国历史研究方面积累了丰富的经验，特别是在宗教、智力和文化史方面。

The proposed project treats, by the way of a transdisciplinary collaboration, the reception and transformation of Greek philosophy in the school of Nisibis before the background of the Sasanid empire in Persia:From a philosophical point of view, one has to investigate the question of what was the role of philosophy within this East Syriac school tradition and which philosophical approaches have been developed there. In order to reach that, it is crucial to treat the problem (largely neglected up to now) of how the Syriac author worked with the Aristotelian texts, that became available in Syriac from the early 6th century onwards.Furthermore, from the perspective of the science of Eastern Christianity, we intend to ask about how the school of Nisibis, given its predominantly late ancient Greek intellectual tradition, created an image of its own, taking into account the challenges posed by its surroundings, i.e. the multireligious Persian empire of the Sasanids. This question is closely linked with the first one, because the well attested relevance of philosophy in the Sasanid empire cannot be separated from the reception of Greek philosophical thought in the school of Nisibis.The project aims at contributing to both question by an exact commentary and a philosophical analysis, from both a historical and a systematic point of view of the text The Cause for the institution of the teaching period of the schools by Barhadbesabba. This text, the author of which understands his work als philosophy in the broad sense this word had acquired in late antiquity, has been recognized recently as the most important source for the intellectual history of the school of Nisibis. Thus, we intend to reach a more comprehensive understanding of this source itself and the school tradition behind it by analysing its philosophical ideas, by tracing its sources and parallels in the remaining literature from the Sassanid empire and its neighbourhood as well as from the (East-)Syriac literary tradition. A continuous commentary of the text shall be supplemented by interpretative essays to special problems and by the first German translation of the text.In order to achieve these aims, the project is founded upon a collaborative effort of Prof. Dr. Matthias Perkams (Ancient and Medieval Philosophy) and PD Dr. Alexander Schilling (Oriens Christianus and Medieval History), who has gathered much experience in research upon the history of the Persian empire, especially regarding its religious, intellectual and cultural history.