Syriac monastic anthologies as a source for the history of Syriac Christianity: Reception and transmission of Syriac and Greek monastic literature

绝大多数的叙利亚修道院文学，包括希腊教父著作的翻译，只保存在选集。其中有相当多的文本在其他地方已不复存在。既没有进行了彻底的探索，这些选集，也没有调查有多少这些选集仍然存在。一些抽查发现了一些迄今未知的文本和作者。重建否则丢失的文本，以及了解哪些过程中的接收和传输这些文本经历了它是至关重要的，以获得一个更好地了解如何在叙利亚传统的选集类型的“功能”。因此，本项目的设想是追求两个相互关联的研究目标：第一，将建立一个详细的描述约127叙利亚手稿的形式和内容。其次，收集的数据将作为研究寺院选集历史特殊性的基础。将提出以下问题：不同选集之间可能存在的相互关系、其形式和内容的发展、所收录文本的传播和接受。这将是第一次有系统地研究这两个主题。由于选集来自不同的叙利亚教会传统（叙利亚东正教会，东方亚述教会和Melkite教会），该项目将有助于我们了解文本和思想的跨宗教交流以及中东基督教的文化历史。

The overwhelming part of Syriac monastic literature including translations of Greek patristic writings is preserved solely in anthologies. Quite a number of these texts are no longer extant elsewhere. Neither has been carried out a thorough exploration of these anthologies nor has it been investigated how many of these anthologies are still extant. Some spot checks have brought to light a number of hitherto unknown texts and authors. To reconstruct otherwise lost texts as well as to understand which processes of reception and transmission these texts underwent it is of crucial importance to get a better knowledge of how the genre of anthologies 'functioned' in the Syriac tradition. Therefore the present project is conceived to pursue two interrelated research objectives: First, a detailed description of form and content of some 127 Syriac manuscripts will be established. Secondly, the collected data will serve as the basis for a study into the particularities of the history of monastic anthologies. The following issues will be raised: possible interrelation between different anthologies, development of their form and content, transmission and reception of the texts included. For the first time a systematic study will address both topics. Since the anthologies stem from different Syriac ecclesiastical traditions (the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Assyrian Church of the East and the Melkite Church) the project will contribute to our knowledge of interdenominational exchange of texts and ideas as well as to the cultural history of Christianity in the Middle East.