Digital Edition and Critical Evaluation of the Coptic Holy Week Lectionary

复活节是埃及基督徒礼拜日历上最重要的宗教节日，他们中的绝大多数属于科普特东正教。在他们的礼仪传统中，圣周从棕榈树主日开始，在接下来的周日以复活节庆祝活动结束。在此期间发生的礼拜活动反映在《圣周讲义》中，这是埃及基督教崇拜的基本书籍之一。尽管它具有重要意义，但用萨希迪亚语、博海语和阿拉伯语编写的科普特圣周讲义仍然没有得到充分的研究。最古老的萨希德圣周讲师的经文(公元10至14世纪)在研究年轻的博海克传统时，只是偶尔用于比较，但在其他方面一直完全没有被探索过。更重要的是，科普特圣周讲座中的阿拉伯语文本只被肤浅地研究过，或者根本没有。现有版本的博海圣周讲师不再符合当前的学术标准。因此，与早期只能被描述为零星、选择性和不完整的研究相反，该项目旨在对埃及的圣周讲义进行全面和系统的调查。该项目的第一个主要目标是提供现存最古老的埃及基督徒圣周讲义的电子版。电子版将生成个人文字证人的半外交版本和圣周讲义的关键节录，其中将比较来自羊皮纸和纸质手稿的萨希迪亚语、博海克语和阿拉伯语文本。在本研究中，数字版将使用并进一步发展科普特《旧约》哥廷根数字版虚拟手稿室的基础设施。第二个主要目标是详尽分析圣周讲坛及其在埃及作为讲坛类型的发展。该项目将解决两个核心问题：a)科普特人在加布里埃尔二世伊本·图莱克(1131-1146)教长改革前后是如何庆祝圣周的；b)是否有适合埃及的圣经文本的礼仪版本？为了回答这些问题，有必要对圣经在讲师中的传播进行文本-历史分类，与圣经手稿传统中的整体传播进行比较。哥廷根虚拟手稿工作室也将极大地帮助实现第二个主要目标。通过使用创新的编辑工具和方法，对《圣周讲义》进行数字化分析将缩小上述研究空白。因此，该项目对科普特人和礼仪研究都具有最大的意义，并将使人们更深入地了解科普特人教会的宗教生活，科普特教会是最大和最重要的东正教教会之一。

Easter is the most important religious feast in the liturgical calendar of the Egyptian Christians, who belong, in their vast majority, to the Coptic Orthodox Church. In their liturgical tradition the Holy Week begins on Palm Sunday and ends on the following Sunday with the Easter celebration. The liturgical events taking place during this period are reflected in the Holy Week lectionary, one of the fundamental books for Christian worship in Egypt.Despite its significance, the Coptic Holy Week lectionary in Sahidic, Bohairic and Arabic is still under-researched. The text of the oldest Sahidic Holy Week lectionaries (10th to 14th c.) has been only sporadically used for comparison when investigating the younger Bohairic tradition but has otherwise remained completely unexplored. What is more, the Arabic texts in the Coptic Holy Week lectionaries have been studied only superficially or not at all. The existing editions of the Bohairic Holy Week lectionaries no longer correspond to current scholarly standards. In contrast therefore to earlier research, which can only be described as sporadic, selective, and incomplete, the project aims at a comprehensive and systematic investigation of the Holy Week lectionary in Egypt.The first principal objective of the project is to provide a digital edition of the oldest extant Holy Week lectionary of the Egyptian Christians. The digital edition will generate both a semi-diplomatic edition of the individual textual witnesses and a critical redaction of the Holy Week lectionary, in which Sahidic, Bohairic and Arabic texts from parchment and paper manuscripts will be compared with each other. The digital edition will use and further develop, for the purposes of this study, the infrastructure of the Virtual Manuscript Room of the Göttingen Digital Edition of the Coptic Old Testament. The second principal objective is the exhaustive analysis of the Holy Week lectionary and of its development as a lectionary type in Egypt. The project will address two core questions: a) How did the Copts celebrate the Holy Week before and after the reform by Patriarch Gabriel II ibn Turaik (1131–1146); b) Was there a liturgical version of the biblical text proper to Egypt? To answer these questions, it is necessary to proceed to a text-historical classification of the biblical transmission in the lectionaries in comparison to the overall transmission in the biblical manuscript tradition. The Göttingen Virtual Manuscript Room will be of great help in achieving the second principal objective as well.Through the use of innovative editorial tools and methods the digitally based analysis of the Holy Week lectionary will close the research gaps described above. The project is therefore of the greatest significance both for Coptic and Liturgical Studies and will provide a deeper understanding of the religious life of the Coptic Church, one of the largest and most important Oriental Orthodox Churches.