Critical edition of Procopius' of Gaza Commentaries to Genesis, Exodus, and Leviticus from the so-called Catena of the Octateuch

Langfristvorhaben的主题是普罗科匹厄斯的加沙评论创世纪，出埃及记和利未记，来自他的“Eclogarum in libros historicos Veteris Testamenti epitome”（迄今通常被称为Octateuch catena）。在2012年修改了项目的时间表后，该项目的目标是在“Die Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller”系列（De Gruyter，柏林/波士顿）中出现对《创世纪》注释的主要批评版本，以及在同一系列中出现的《创世纪》注释的翻译。由于《希腊百科全书》中米涅的版本只给出了部分希腊原文，所以每个版本在很大程度上都是一个版本。《创世纪注释》的版本和译本分别于2015年和2016年出版，均收录在《Die Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller》丛书中。本申请2016-2019年的剩余目标是“出埃及记注释”的希腊文本手稿，准备根据上述系列的规则进行评估。这些作品是对摩西五经和旧约其他历史书籍的部分评论，具有非凡的意义，因为它的作者巴勒斯坦演说家和神学家普罗科匹乌斯（约公元465/475-528/530）提取了教父训诂学的精髓。不管解释学流派和教条主义的观点如何，这本合集将一些早期注释的摘录和释义结合在一起，这些注释的原件经常丢失，给了我们一个在异教环境中第一个基督教世纪的神学作者们的多声音的音乐会，评论了第一个世纪基督教的关键问题：他们必须决定如何处理犹太圣经，如何在异教哲学的框架下思考圣经宇宙论，如何从心理上理解先祖的行为，如何解决《出埃及记》开头提到的自由意志的哲学问题。有些作品没有以原始语言流传下来，而只是以这些片段流传下来。对于教会历史研究来说，一个批判版在两个方面是可取的：重建碎片的措辞和确定来源。普罗科匹厄斯不仅使用了以前的作品（《乌尔卡廷》），就像同一本圣经的匿名系列一样，而且还使用了一些原始作品，有时更真实地引用了文本。他经常在两个片段之间添加缺失的上下文。被引用的来源具有至关重要的意义：因此，它们的识别是版本通常工作流程中的主要任务之一。没有已知来源的碎片是最令人兴奋的，因为它们使人们能够接触到失落的作者和东方教会的作品。从这些方面来看，恢复工作的科学性具有重要意义。

Subjects of the Langfristvorhaben are Procopius' of Gaza Commentaries to Genesis, Exodus, and Leviticus from his "Eclogarum in libros historicos Veteris Testamenti epitome" (hitherto often called Octateuch catena). After a modification of the schedule of the project in 2012, the project's aims were an editio critica maior of the Commentary to Genesis and Exodus, to appear in the series "Die Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller" (De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston), and a translation of the Commentary to Genesis, which appeared in the same series. Since the edition of Migne in the "Patrologia Graeca" gives only part of the text of the works in its original Greek, each edition is for the most part an editio princeps.Edition and translation of the "Commentary on Genesis" were published in 2015 and 2016, both of them in the series "Die Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller". The remaining aim of this application for the years 2016-2019 is a manuscript of the Greek text of the "Commentary on Exodus", ready for the evaluation according to the rules of the mentioned series.The works, parts of a commentary on the Pentateuch and other historical books of the Old testament are of extraordinary meaning, as its author the Palaestinian orator and theologian Procopius of Gaza (ca. 465/475-528/530 AD) extracts an essence of patristic exegesis. Regardless of hermeneutical schools and dogmatic opinions, the collection unites excerpts and paraphrases of older commentaries, of which the originals are often lost, giving us a many-voiced concert of theological authors of the first Christian centuries in their pagan environment, commenting crucial problems of Christianity in the first centuries: They had to decide how to deal with the Jewish bible, how to think about biblical cosmology in the frame of pagan philosophy, how to understand psychologically the actions of the patriarchs, how to solve the philosophical problem of free will in the beginning of the book of Exodus. Some of the works have not come down to us in the original language, but only in these fragments.For Church history research, a critical edition is desirable in two regards: to reconstruct the wording of the fragments and to identify the sources. Procopius not only uses a previous work ("Urkatene"), as does the anonymous catena of the same bible book, but also some of the original works, sometimes citing the text more truthfully. He often adds the missing context between two fragments.The cited sources are of crucial meaning: Therefore, their identification is one of the major tasks within the usual workflow of the edition. Fragments without known sources are the most exciting ones, because they give access to lost authors and works of the Eastern church. From these aspects it is of main importance to restore a work to the scientific.