Digital Edition and Critical Evaluation of the Coptic Holy Week Lectionary

复活节是埃及基督徒礼仪日历中最重要的宗教节日，他们绝大多数属于科普特东正教。在他们的礼仪传统中，圣周从棕枝主日开始，到下一个星期日的复活节庆祝活动结束。这一时期发生的礼仪事件反映在圣周经文中，圣周经文是埃及基督教崇拜的基本书籍之一。尽管圣周经文意义重大，但在Sahidic，Bohairic和阿拉伯语中的科普特圣周经文仍然研究不足。最古老的Sahidic圣周lectaries（10日至14日C）的文本。一直只是偶尔用于比较时，调查年轻的Bohairic传统，但在其他方面仍然完全未被探索。更重要的是，科普特圣周讲座中的阿拉伯语文本只得到了肤浅的研究，或者根本没有。Bohairic圣周讲座的现有版本不再符合当前的学术标准。因此，与早期只能被描述为零星的、选择性的和不完整的研究相比，该项目旨在对埃及的圣周经文集进行全面和系统的调查。该项目的第一个主要目标是提供埃及基督徒现存最古老的圣周经文集的数字版。数字版将生成个人文本见证的半外交版本和圣周经文集的关键编辑，其中Sahidic，Bohairic和阿拉伯语的羊皮纸和纸质手稿将相互比较。为了本研究的目的，数字版将使用并进一步开发哥廷根数字版科普特旧约的虚拟Mannippt室的基础设施。第二个主要目标是圣周lectionary和它的发展作为一个lectionary类型在埃及详尽的分析。该项目将解决两个核心问题：a）在大主教加百列二世·伊本·图莱克（Gabriel II ibn Turaik，1131-1146）的改革前后，科普特人如何庆祝圣周; B）是否有一个适合埃及的圣经文本的礼仪版本？为了回答这些问题，有必要对圣经在经集中的传播进行文本历史分类，并与圣经手稿传统中的整体传播进行比较。哥廷根虚拟图书馆也将对实现第二个主要目标有很大的帮助。通过使用创新的编辑工具和方法，对圣周经文的数字化分析将填补上述研究空白。因此，该项目对科普特和礼仪研究都具有重大意义，并将使人们更深入地了解科普特教会的宗教生活，科普特教会是最大和最重要的东方东正教教会之一。

Easter is the most important religious feast in the liturgical calendar of the Egyptian Christians, who belong, in their vast majority, to the Coptic Orthodox Church. In their liturgical tradition the Holy Week begins on Palm Sunday and ends on the following Sunday with the Easter celebration. The liturgical events taking place during this period are reflected in the Holy Week lectionary, one of the fundamental books for Christian worship in Egypt.Despite its significance, the Coptic Holy Week lectionary in Sahidic, Bohairic and Arabic is still under-researched. The text of the oldest Sahidic Holy Week lectionaries (10th to 14th c.) has been only sporadically used for comparison when investigating the younger Bohairic tradition but has otherwise remained completely unexplored. What is more, the Arabic texts in the Coptic Holy Week lectionaries have been studied only superficially or not at all. The existing editions of the Bohairic Holy Week lectionaries no longer correspond to current scholarly standards. In contrast therefore to earlier research, which can only be described as sporadic, selective, and incomplete, the project aims at a comprehensive and systematic investigation of the Holy Week lectionary in Egypt.The first principal objective of the project is to provide a digital edition of the oldest extant Holy Week lectionary of the Egyptian Christians. The digital edition will generate both a semi-diplomatic edition of the individual textual witnesses and a critical redaction of the Holy Week lectionary, in which Sahidic, Bohairic and Arabic texts from parchment and paper manuscripts will be compared with each other. The digital edition will use and further develop, for the purposes of this study, the infrastructure of the Virtual Manuscript Room of the Göttingen Digital Edition of the Coptic Old Testament. The second principal objective is the exhaustive analysis of the Holy Week lectionary and of its development as a lectionary type in Egypt. The project will address two core questions: a) How did the Copts celebrate the Holy Week before and after the reform by Patriarch Gabriel II ibn Turaik (1131–1146); b) Was there a liturgical version of the biblical text proper to Egypt? To answer these questions, it is necessary to proceed to a text-historical classification of the biblical transmission in the lectionaries in comparison to the overall transmission in the biblical manuscript tradition. The Göttingen Virtual Manuscript Room will be of great help in achieving the second principal objective as well.Through the use of innovative editorial tools and methods the digitally based analysis of the Holy Week lectionary will close the research gaps described above. The project is therefore of the greatest significance both for Coptic and Liturgical Studies and will provide a deeper understanding of the religious life of the Coptic Church, one of the largest and most important Oriental Orthodox Churches.