Annotating the New Testament: Codex H, Euthalian Traditions, and the Humanities

新约注释：Codex H、安乐传统和人文学科

• 批准号: AH/X001458/1
• 负责人: Garrick Allen
• 金额: $ 25.76万
• 依托单位: University of Glasgow
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX001458%2F1
• 关键词: Annotating; New; Testament; Codex; Euthalian

This project investigates a set of Greek New Testament manuscripts that contain one or more of the letters of the apostle Paul, the Catholic Epistles, and Acts from the New Testament. Many manuscripts containing these works include a range of annotations and prefaces (known as paratexts) called the Euthalian apparatus (or the Euthaliana). The Euthaliana include things such as lists of chapters and quotations, prologues for works or sub-collections, and accounts of Paul's life, death, and activities, among others. The Euthalian apparatus gets its name from the mention of an elusive 'Euthalius' in the colophons at end of some of the manuscripts, including the earliest available example, Codex H, from the 6th century CE. The Euthalian tradition is an important and overlooked resource for our understanding of several related areas: New Testament Canon: These manuscripts shed light on the complex process of the formation of the New Testament, highlighting the strategies involved in the transmission of particular collections of texts, and the ways they were understood. Early Christian Reading Practices: The paratexts that make up the Euthaliana enrich our picture of how early Christians interpreted, studied, and taught certain New Testament texts and how their framing of these texts was drawn from other ancient literature. Ancient Intellectual and Scribal Culture: Despite uncertainty about the identify of Euthalius, it is generally agreed that the apparatus can be traced back to a grammarian from late antiquity, likely associated with Caesarea in Palestine, an important intellectual hub where figures such as Pamphilus, Origen, Eusebius, and Jerome were active. The overall aim of this project is to compile and analyse manuscripts with the Euthalian apparatus, paying particular attention to Codex H as the earliest example of the tradition. Very little scholarly work has been carried out on the Euthaliana generally and Codex H in particular, which was taken apart from the 10th to the 13th century in the monastic community of the Great Lavra monastery on Mount Athos, where the individual leaves were used to bind other codices. Over time, these leaves found their way into museums across Europe and they are now damaged and difficult to read.The project's goals are: (1) To produce new digital images of the leaves of Codex H using multi-spectral technology, in order to maximise the readability of faded or damaged text. (2) To use these images to produce a new critical edition of Codex H in both digital and print format, featuring a transcription of the Greek text and an English translation of its text and Euthalian paratexts. (3) To create a catalogue of every Greek New Testament manuscript which displays one or more features of Euthalian apparatus, paving the way for future work on this tradition's textual and historical relevance to the study of the New Testament, early Christianity, literary and scribal culture, and the manuscripts as material objects. (4) To investigate the history and development of the Euthalian apparatus, especially as it relates to questions surrounding the New Testament and its formation as a collection, pedagogical habits in late antiquity, and the ways that traditions about the authorship and origins of particular texts were understood and communicated. (5) To further establish what the Euthaliana can reveal about late-antique scholarship in Caesarea and the wider eastern Mediterranean, including how the Euthaliana fit into the broader landscape of New Testament interpretation and the development of other paratextual material in Caesarea, like the Eusebian apparatus to the Gospels. (6) To encourage more direct and creative work with the individual manuscripts that preserve New Testament texts, which is made increasingly possible through the digital humanities.

这个项目调查了一套希腊新约手稿，其中包含使徒保罗的一封或多封信，天主教书信，以及新约中的行为。许多包含这些作品的手稿包括一系列的注释和前言(称为副文集)，称为欧撒利亚机器(或欧撒利纳)。Euthaliana包括一些东西，如章节和引语列表，作品或子集的序言，以及保罗的生死和活动的记述，等等。欧撒利亚机构的名字来自于在一些手稿结尾的柱音中提到了一个难以捉摸的‘尤塔利乌斯’，包括可获得的最早的例子，从公元6世纪的Codex H。欧撒利亚传统是我们理解几个相关领域的重要而被忽视的资源：新约正典：这些手稿阐明了新约形成的复杂过程，突出了特定文本集合传输所涉及的策略，以及它们被理解的方式。早期基督教阅读实践：组成Euthaliana的副文本丰富了我们对早期基督徒如何解释、研究和教授某些新约圣经文本的图景，以及他们对这些文本的框架是如何从其他古代文献中提取出来的。古代知识和经文文化：尽管不确定尤塔利的身份，但人们普遍认为，该仪器可以追溯到一个语法学家从远古末期，很可能与巴勒斯坦的该撒利亚，一个重要的知识中心，如PamPhilus，奥利，尤西比乌斯和杰罗姆活跃的数字。该项目的总体目标是利用欧洲机构汇编和分析手稿，特别注意作为这一传统的最早范例的食典H。很少有学术工作进行了对Euthaliana一般，尤其是法典H，这是从10世纪到13世纪在阿托斯山的大拉夫拉修道院修道院社区，在那里个别叶子被用来结合其他抄本。随着时间的推移，这些树叶进入了欧洲各地的博物馆，现在它们已经损坏，难以阅读。该项目的目标是：(1)使用多光谱技术生成新的Codex H树叶的数字图像，以最大限度地提高褪色或损坏文本的可读性。(2)利用这些图像制作数字和印刷格式的食典H的新的关键版本，包括希腊语文本的转录及其文本和欧亚语副文本的英文翻译。(3)创建每一份希腊新约手稿的目录，展示欧太机器的一个或多个特征，为这一传统的文本和历史意义的未来工作铺平道路，以研究新约、早期基督教、文学和经文文化，以及作为物质对象的手稿。(4)调查欧洲机构的历史和发展，特别是与围绕《新约全书》及其作为一个集合的形成有关的问题，晚期古代的教学习惯，以及关于特定文本的作者和起源的传统被理解和交流的方式。(5)进一步建立Euthaliana可以揭示什么关于晚期古董学术在该撒利亚和更广泛的东地中海，包括如何适应新约全书解释的更广泛的景观和其他副文材料在该撒利亚的发展，如福音的尤西比安机构。(6)鼓励对保存新约圣经文本的个人手稿进行更直接和更有创造性的工作，这一点通过数字人文科学日益成为可能。