Reception and elaboration of philosophy within the School of Nisibis. By the means of a commentary and an analysis of Barhadbesabba's The Cause for the institution of the teaching period in the schools (around 600 A.D.)

该项目将通过跨学科合作的方式，在波斯萨珊王朝的背景下，在尼西比斯学派接受和转变希腊哲学：从哲学的角度来看，人们必须调查哲学在东叙利亚学派传统中的作用以及那里发展了哪些哲学方法。为了达到这一点，至关重要的是要处理这个问题（大部分被忽视到现在）的叙利亚作者如何工作与阿伯特利亚文本，成为可用的叙利亚语从早期的世纪起。此外，从东方基督教科学的角度来看，我们打算问如何尼西比斯学校，鉴于其主要是晚期古希腊知识传统，考虑到周围环境的挑战，即多宗教的萨珊波斯帝国，创造了自己的形象。这个问题与第一个问题密切相关，因为哲学在萨珊王朝的相关性已经得到充分证明，这与尼西比斯学派对希腊哲学思想的接受是分不开的。该项目旨在通过精确的评论和哲学分析来回答这两个问题，从历史和系统的角度来看，该文本的原因，为机构的教学期间的学校由Barhadbesabba。这篇文章，其中的作者理解他的工作ALS哲学在广义上这个词已经在古代晚期收购，最近已被确认为最重要的来源，为学校的Nisibis的思想史。因此，我们打算通过分析其哲学思想，通过追溯其来源和萨珊帝国及其邻国以及（东）叙利亚文学传统的剩余文学中的相似之处，来更全面地了解这一来源本身及其背后的学校传统。本文的连续评论应通过对特殊问题的解释性文章和本文的第一个德语翻译来补充。为了实现这些目标，该项目建立在Matthias Perkams教授和博士的共同努力之上。（古代和中世纪哲学）和PD博士亚历山大席林（Oriens Christianus和中世纪历史），他在研究波斯帝国的历史，特别是关于其宗教，知识和文化历史方面积累了丰富的经验。

The proposed project treats, by the way of a transdisciplinary collaboration, the reception and transformation of Greek philosophy in the school of Nisibis before the background of the Sasanid empire in Persia:From a philosophical point of view, one has to investigate the question of what was the role of philosophy within this East Syriac school tradition and which philosophical approaches have been developed there. In order to reach that, it is crucial to treat the problem (largely neglected up to now) of how the Syriac author worked with the Aristotelian texts, that became available in Syriac from the early 6th century onwards.Furthermore, from the perspective of the science of Eastern Christianity, we intend to ask about how the school of Nisibis, given its predominantly late ancient Greek intellectual tradition, created an image of its own, taking into account the challenges posed by its surroundings, i.e. the multireligious Persian empire of the Sasanids. This question is closely linked with the first one, because the well attested relevance of philosophy in the Sasanid empire cannot be separated from the reception of Greek philosophical thought in the school of Nisibis.The project aims at contributing to both question by an exact commentary and a philosophical analysis, from both a historical and a systematic point of view of the text The Cause for the institution of the teaching period of the schools by Barhadbesabba. This text, the author of which understands his work als philosophy in the broad sense this word had acquired in late antiquity, has been recognized recently as the most important source for the intellectual history of the school of Nisibis. Thus, we intend to reach a more comprehensive understanding of this source itself and the school tradition behind it by analysing its philosophical ideas, by tracing its sources and parallels in the remaining literature from the Sassanid empire and its neighbourhood as well as from the (East-)Syriac literary tradition. A continuous commentary of the text shall be supplemented by interpretative essays to special problems and by the first German translation of the text.In order to achieve these aims, the project is founded upon a collaborative effort of Prof. Dr. Matthias Perkams (Ancient and Medieval Philosophy) and PD Dr. Alexander Schilling (Oriens Christianus and Medieval History), who has gathered much experience in research upon the history of the Persian empire, especially regarding its religious, intellectual and cultural history.