Critical edition of the Slavonic text of the Catholic Epistles

本研究的对象是使徒，也就是使徒行传和书信（或者换一种说法，不包括福音书和启示录的整本新约），在东方传统中，它们通常作为一卷存在。没有任何文本能比这更深入地融入正统斯拉夫人的文化：每个人，无论是否识字，都会在每周的礼拜仪式上听到它，而那些在书面文化发展中最活跃的人，在修道院，几乎每天都会遇到它。然而，它的大部分都是未经编辑的，研究它的第一个要求是确定它实际上是什么：在特定的时间和地点，什么样的文本实际上是流传的，以及它是如何在其历史和文化背景下发展的。因此，我们需要的是一个批判版，也就是说，一个将文本作为一个整体呈现的版本，而不是由一个特定的手稿所代表的版本。这包括一个基础文本，它要么试图重建文本的原始形式（在这种情况下不是一个现实的目标），要么呈现一个中立的文本，一个清除了个人证人的特质和偏差的共同点，伴随着一个包含在过渡过程中出现的文本重要变体的装置。到目前为止，唯一的斯拉夫语使徒评论版是1892-1906年由g.a.沃斯克列森斯基出版的，它只涵盖了圣保罗书信的前五部。编辑整部《使徒传》将是一项巨大的任务，是多年的工作；因此，目前的项目仅限于天主教书信，文本的一部分足够大的意义重大，但足够小的管理。该版本将以大约一百份手稿为基础，从最早的时代到16世纪，完整地涵盖了中世纪整个东正教斯拉夫世界的文本变化。在研究过程中，将讨论斯拉夫使徒历史的一些基本问题。这包括翻译的性质，以及它们与希腊原文的关系以及彼此之间的关系；在斯拉夫语境中文本传播的本质；使徒在礼仪实践中的地位，以及后者对其发展的影响；使徒的语言和对书面文字的文化态度。得出的结论将在随本版本出版的研究报告中提出。这项研究将充分利用新技术：文本和变体将被电子编码，研究人员开发的技术将用于协助评估变体和生成关键版本。它还旨在在项目结束后以电子形式提供原始数据，以供未来的研究人员使用。研究结果将引起斯拉夫研究、圣经研究、语言学、历史和文化研究等领域的学者的兴趣。在东欧国家重新发现其文化和宗教遗产的背景下，这也应该在现代世界中产生更广泛的共鸣。特别重要的是，在重新界定国家特性时，这些看法应得到可靠的学术研究的支持，而这项研究应有助于提供这样一个基础。

The object of this study is the Apostolos, that is to say the Acts and Epistles (or to put it another way, the entire New Testament without the Gospels and Revelation), which in the Eastern tradition normally exist as a single volume. No text could be more more fundamentally embedded into the culture of the Orthodox Slavs: everyone, literate or not, would have heard it read weekly at the Liturgy, and those most active in the development of written culture, in the monasteries, would have encountered it almost every day. Nevertheless it remains for the most part unedited, and the first requirement for its study is to establish what it actually was: what text actually circulated in a given time and place, and how it developed in its historical and cultural context.What is therefore needed is a critical edition, that is to say an edition which presents the text as a whole and not as represented by a particular manuscript. This consists of a base text, which either attempts to reconstruct the original form of the text (not in this case a realistic aim) or to present a neutral text, a common denominator purged of the idiosyncrasies and deviations of individual witnesses, accompanied by an apparatus containing the textually significant variants that have arisen in the course of transition. So far the only critical edition of the Slavonic Apostolos has been that published in 1892-1906 by G. A. Voskresenskij, which covers only the first five of the Epistles of St Paul.To edit the entire Apostolos would be an enormous task, the work of many years; the present project therefore confines itself to the Catholic Epistles, a portion of text sufficiently large to be significant, but sufficiently small to be manageable. The edition will be based on approximately one hundred manuscripts from the earliest times to the sixteenth century, giving a complete coverage of the the variation in the text during the Middle Ages throughout the Orthodox Slavonic world.In the course of the research a number of questions fundamental to the history of the Slavonic Apostolos will be addressed. These include the nature of the translation(s) made and their relationship to the Greek original and to each other; the nature of the transmission of the text in the Slavonic context; the place of the Apostolos within liturgical practice and the influence of the latter on its development; the language of the Apostolos and cultural attitudes towards the written word. The conclusions reached will be presented in the study that will accompany the edition.The research will make full use of new technology: the text and variants will be electronically encoded, and techniques developed by the researcher used both to assist in evaluating variants and in generating the critical edition. It is intended additionally to make to raw data available in electronic form after the end of the project for the benefit of future researchers.The outcomes will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of Slavonic Studies, Biblical Studies, linguistics, history and cultural studies. The should also have a wider resonance in the modern world in the context of Eastern European nations' rediscovery of their cultural and religious heritage. It is particularly important in the re-definition of national identities that these perceptions should be supported by sound scholarship, and this research should assist in providing such a basis.