CODEX ZACYNTHIUS

什么是《查辛提乌斯抄本》？它是希腊《新约》中最古老的手稿，包含早期基督教神学家著作和圣经文本的摘录。这是一部历史分两个阶段的手稿。最初的手稿是在公元700年左右复制的，其中包含路加福音，节选部分写在它周围的三个外边距处。它最近被剑桥大学图书馆买下，这为了解它提供了一个独特的机会。在13世纪，手稿被肢解，墨水被擦掉。然后重新使用它来制作福音书的讲义手稿，与原始文本成直角写成。因此，旧的文本是不完整的，从那以后它的大部分都难以辨认。为什么它被称为Codex Zacynthius？手稿经常被赋予一个拉丁名字，表明它们被发现的地方，或者它们现在被保存在哪里。Codex Zacynthius发现于希腊爱奥尼亚群岛最南端的赞特岛(Zakynthos)。这是赞特的科穆托亲王送给英国士兵科林·麦考利将军的礼物，后者于1821年将其捐赠给英国和外国圣经协会。它一直由剑桥大学图书馆保存，最终在2014年买下了这份手稿。为什么原稿很重要？从早期基督教作家解释圣经经文中摘录的习俗本身就是一项迷人的研究，展示了不同世代如何在整个遗产的背景下理解经文。它也是有价值的，因为其中一些摘录是从已经完全丢失的作品中摘录的。有时这些作品表达了后来被认为是异端的观点，以至于我们无法接触到这些观点本身，只能通过他们对手的眼睛看到它们。找回这些摘录，让我们对这些丢失的著作和丢失的解释有了诱人的一瞥。后面的文本很重要，因为讲师是希腊新约圣经文本传统中一个未被充分研究的元素，但它代表了大多数人在公共礼拜期间阅读圣经时遇到的形式。该项目将实现什么？因为旧手稿被彻底清理过，无论是肉眼还是传统摄影都无法完全阅读它。该项目将使用一种名为多光谱成像的技术来制作新的数字图像，这将使找到原始墨水的准确波长成为可能。根据这些图像，我们将能够对手稿的原始文本进行第一次完整的转录。我们还将对后面的文本进行完整的转录。我们还将翻译摘录。我们将使用伯明翰大学文本学术和电子编辑研究所开发的技术，以电子格式制作这些抄写。这些图片和抄本都将在互联网上发布。我们还将研究这些摘录，并能够写出它们是如何组合在一起的第一个完整的描述。然后我们将能够讨论他们在更广泛的圣经研究图景中的地位。我们将翻译原文，以便非希腊语观众能够理解。

What is Codex Zacynthius?It is the oldest manuscript of the Greek New Testament to contain extracts from early Christian theologians writings as well as the biblical text. It is a manuscript with two stages to its history. The original manuscript was copied around the year 700, and contained the Gospel of Luke, with the extracts written around it in the three outer margins. It has recently been bought by Cambridge University Library, and this provides a unique opportunity to find out more about it.In the thirteenth century the manuscript was dismembered and the ink was rubbed out. It was then re-used to make a lectionary manuscript of the Gospels, written at right-angles to the original text. As a result, the older text is incomplete and much of it has been illegible ever since.Why is it called Codex Zacynthius?Manuscripts are often given a Latin name showing where they were found, or where they are now kept. Codex Zacynthius was found on the Island of Zante (Zakynthos), the most southerly of Greece's Ionian Islands. It was a gift from Prince Comuto of Zante to a British soldier, General Colin Macaulay, who donated it to the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1821. It has for long been in the keeping of Cambridge University Library, who finally bought the manuscript in 2014.Why does the original manuscript matter?The custom of making extracts from early Christian writers explaining biblical text is a fascinating study in its own right, showing how different generations understood scripture in the context of their entire heritage. It is also of value because some of these excerpts are taken from writings that have been lost in their entirety. Sometimes these are writings expressing views later deemed heretical, so that we lost access to the views themselves and only saw them through their opponents' eyes. Recovering these extracts gives us tantalising glimpses of such lost writings and lost interpretations.The later text is important because lectionaries are an under-studied element of the textual tradition of the Greek New Testament, but represent the form in which most people encountered the Bible as they were used for reading during public worship.What will the project achieve?Because the older manuscript was so thoroughly cleaned, it cannot be fully read either by eyesight or by traditional photography.The project will make new digital images using a technique called Multi-Spectral Imaging, which will make it possible to find the exact wavelength of the original ink. From these images we will be able to make the first complete transcriptions of the original text of the manuscript. We will also make a complete transcription of the later text. We will also make a translation of the extracts.We will makes these transcriptions in an electronic format, using techniques developed in the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing at the University of Birmingham. The images and transcriptions will all be published on the internet. We will also study the extracts and be able to write the first complete account of the way in which they were put together. We will then be able to discuss their place in the wider picture of biblical study. We will translate the original text in order to make it accessible to a non-Greek speaking audience.