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.

本项目研究了一组希腊文新约手稿，其中包含使徒保罗的一封或多封书信、天主教书信和新约使徒行传。许多包含这些作品的手稿包括一系列称为euthaliia apparatus（或Euthaliana）的注释和序言（称为paratext）。《真义录》包括章节和引文的列表，作品或分集的序言，以及保罗的生平，死亡和活动的记述等等。尤撒利亚仪器的名字来源于一些手稿末尾的附注中提到的一个难以捉摸的“尤撒利乌斯”，包括最早的例子，公元6世纪的H抄本。意大利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：这些手抄本揭示了新约形成的复杂过程，突出了特定文本集合传播的策略，以及它们被理解的方式。早期基督教阅读实践：构成Euthaliana的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文本的看法，以及他们如何从其他古代文献中汲取这些文本的框架。古代知识分子和抄写文化：尽管对Euthalius的身份不确定，但普遍认为该仪器可以追溯到古代晚期的语法学家，可能与巴勒斯坦的凯撒利亚有关，凯撒利亚是一个重要的知识中心，Pamphilus, Origen， Eusebius和Jerome等人物都活跃在这里。该项目的总体目标是用意大利仪器汇编和分析手稿，特别注意作为传统最早的例子的H抄本。关于Euthaliana的学术研究很少，特别是H手抄本，从10世纪到13世纪，在阿索斯山上的大拉夫拉修道院的修道院社区，它被拆开了，在那里，单个的叶子被用来装订其他手抄本。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，难以辨认。该项目的目标是：(1)使用多光谱技术生成H法典叶片的新数字图像，以便最大限度地提高褪色或损坏文本的可读性。(2)使用这些图像以数字和印刷格式制作新的关键版《H》手抄本，其中包括希腊文本的抄本及其文本和意大利文本的英文翻译。(3)为每一份希腊新约手稿创建一个目录，其中显示了意大利仪器的一个或多个特征，为未来研究这一传统的文本和历史相关性铺平道路，以研究新约，早期基督教，文学和抄写文化，以及作为实物的手稿。(4)调查意大利仪器的历史和发展，特别是当它与新约及其作为一个集合的形成，古代晚期的教学习惯，以及关于特定文本的作者和起源的传统的理解和交流的方式有关的问题。(5)进一步确定Euthaliana可以揭示凯撒利亚和更广泛的东地中海地区的晚期学术，包括Euthaliana如何融入更广泛的新约解释景观，以及凯撒利亚其他文本材料的发展，如福音的优西比亚仪器。(6)鼓励对保存新约文本的单个手稿进行更直接和创造性的工作，这通过数字人文学科越来越有可能实现。