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.

该项目调查了一组希腊新约手稿，其中包含使徒保罗，天主教书信的一个或多个信件，并采取了新约的行为。许多包含这些作品的手稿包括一系列注释和序言（称为paratexts），称为Euthalian设备（或Euthaliana）。安乐室包括诸如章节和报价列表，作品或子收集的序言，以及保罗的生命，死亡和活动等。安乐室的设备从某些手稿结束时提到了一个古怪的“ euthalius”的名字，其中包括最早的可用示例，即codex h 6世纪，公元6世纪。安乐室的传统是我们对几个相关领域的理解：新约佳能的重要资源：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播的策略，以及它们被理解的方式。 早期的基督教阅读练习：构成Euthaliana的Paratexts丰富了我们关于早期基督徒如何解释，研究和教授某些新约文本的图片，以及它们对这些文本的构图是如何从其他古代文献中汲取的。 古代的知识分子和抄写文化：尽管对安达利乌斯的识别不确定性，但人们普遍认为，该设备可以追溯到后期古代的语法学家，可能与巴勒斯坦的凯撒利亚有关，这是一个重要的知识中心，这是一个重要的人物，例如Pamphilus，Origen，Eusebius，Eusebius和Jerome活跃。该项目的总体目的是用安乐室的仪器编译和分析手稿，特别关注法典H作为传统的最早例子。在Euthaliana上，尤其是Codex H进行的学术工作很少，这是在Athos山上的大拉夫拉修道院（Mount Athos）的修道院社区中从10到13世纪进行的，该修道院使用了各个叶子来绑定其他法规。随着时间的流逝，这些树叶进入了整个欧洲的博物馆，现在被损坏且难以阅读。该项目的目标是：（1）使用多光谱技术生产Codex H叶子的新数字图像，以最大程度地提高褪色或受损文本的可读性。 （2）使用这些图像以数字和印刷格式制作新的Codex H的新关键版本，其中包含希腊文本的转录以及其文本和Euthalian Paratexts的英文翻译。 （3）创建每个希腊新约手稿的目录，该手稿展示了一个或多个特征的特征，为未来的工作铺平了与对新约，早期基督教，文学和抄写文化的研究的文字和历史相关性的方式，以及手稿作为物质对象。 （4）调查安乐室仪器的历史和发展，尤其是在围绕新约及其作为集合的形成的问题，后期古代的教学习惯以及有关特定文本的作者身份和起源的传统方式被理解和传达的方式。 （5）为了进一步确定凯撒利亚和更广泛的地中海东部的晚期奖学金可以揭示的内容，包括euthaliana如何适应新约解释的更广泛的景观以及在凯撒利亚的其他帕拉特文化的发展，例如尤西比亚式的福音士。 （6）通过保留新约文本的单个手稿来鼓励更多直接和创造性的工作，这是通过数字人文学科越来越有可能的。