Commentary on John of Ephesus’s Ecclesiastical History

以弗所的约翰的《教会史》（= EH）是东罗马帝国和中东地区在七世纪开始的长期政治和文化变革前夕最广泛的史学资料之一。在未被充分研究的6世纪晚期，《埃赫》提供了一个独特的Vantage位置：它是用一种被称为叙利亚语的阿拉姆方言写的，出自一位主教之笔，这位主教来自一个与帝国教会竞争的教会机构。这部作品只有第三部分完整地保存了下来，以弗所的约翰是在住在帝国首都君士坦丁堡的时候写的，而且确实是断断续续地被埋葬。虽然历史学家和神学家都广泛使用了EH，但这些观点很少被放在一起。拟议的项目将弥合这一鸿沟，整合历史和神学研究的EH在一个新的关键版本，翻译，并全面评论本工作的第三部分。计划开放获取数字和印刷版本的版本，翻译和评论，并在几个存储库的初步数字出版物将邀请学术界在项目过程中的反馈意见。与几个数字人文项目的合作也将产生一套教学辅助工具，以支持学生和学者学习叙利亚语。最后，这个项目将提请注意一个古代社区的文学成就之一，许多最近移民到德国和欧盟的人认为这是他们的遗产。

John of Ephesus’s Ecclesiastical History (= EH) forms one of the most extensive historiographical sources for the Eastern Roman Empire and the Middle East on the eve of the long-lasting political and cultural changes that began in the seventh century. The EH offers a distinct vantage point on the understudied late sixth century: it was written in a dialect of Aramaic called Syriac, and it comes from the pen of a bishop from an ecclesiastical body that competed with the imperial church. Only the third part of this work survives intact, and John of Ephesus wrote it while living—and indeed while intermittently imprisoned—in the imperial capital of Constantinople. Although historians and theologians have both made extensive use of the EH, these perspectives have rarely been brought together. The proposed project will bridge this divide by integrating historical and theological research on the EH in a new critical edition, translation, and comprehensive commentary on the third part of this work. Open access digital and print versions of the edition, translation, and commentary are planned, and preliminary digital publications in several repositories will invite feedback from the scholarly community during the course of the project. Collaboration with several digital humanities projects will also result in a suite of didactic aids to support students and scholars learning Syriac. Finally, this project will draw attention to one of the literary achievements of a community in antiquity which many recent immigrants to Germany and the European Union count as their heritage.