The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Ephesians: Text, Translation, and Commentary

最初对早期教会手稿的兴趣仅限于对有限范围的文件进行编目（Karo和Lietzmann， 1902）。在此之后，卡尔·斯塔布于1926年对这些文本的格式和内容进行了更全面的调查。目前《Clavis Patrum Graecorum》中Pauline catenae的标准分类（198*，第2版，2018）完全依赖于Staab的出版物，尽管最近发现了100多份未在现有目录中列出的catena手稿（Houghton和Parker， 2016）。伯明翰大学的文本学术和电子编辑研究所（ITSEE）在这一新的连锁研究浪潮中处于领先地位，促进了对这些手稿的第一次综合研究，这些手稿既见证了新约文本，也见证了基督教训诂学的发展，甚至确定了早期基督教作家保存其他未知文本的摘录，包括后来被禁止为异端的作品（Moss, 2016）。最近的研究，如帕内拉关于加拉太书的M3C论文，扎辛提乌斯抄本项目和ERC CATENA项目，为研究这些手稿提供了一个无与伦比的环境。我的研究将建立在这些新创建的资源上，以促进对以弗所书早期注释传统的新理解——以弗所书是保罗的关键书信之一，有时被描述为保罗神学的总结（Lincoln, 1998）。我的中心研究问题是，在以弗所书的早期形式中，不同的神学注释者是如何影响中世纪前教会的解释方法的。这个项目的目的是制作这个评论的第一个批判版本，并将其神学方法与当代西方解释结构进行比较。在准备制作这一版本的过程中，我已经开始将现有的文献分为Staab和Clavis Patrum Graecorum两类。那些证明最早的评注形式的手稿将被完全誊写。将对这些抄本进行整理，以便制作最后的数字版本，并提供每个文件的超链接。这个版本的完成将使批判性地参与到它所包含的注释的神学性质中。通过恢复这些早期基督教团体的声音，一些随着时间的流逝而消失，现代教会将能够重新连接被遗忘的解释方法，可能会以更符合前几个世纪的方式改变现代解释学方法。此外，这项工作将作为未来批评版本的模板，其他类似的圣经注释手稿。

Initial interest in the catena manuscripts of the early church was constrained to the cataloguing of a limited range of documents (Karo and Lietzmann, 1902). Following this, a fuller enquiry into the format and content of these texts was undertaken by Karl Staab in 1926. The current standard classification of Pauline catenae in the Clavis Patrum Graecorum (198*, 2nd ed. 2018) depends entirely on Staab's publications, despite the recent discovery of more than one hundred catena manuscripts not featured in existing catalogues (Houghton and Parker, 2016). The Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing (ITSEE) at the University of Birmingham has led the way in this new wave of catena research, promoting the first integrated study of these manuscripts as witnesses both to the New Testament text and the development of Christian exegesis, even identifying extracts which preserve otherwise unknown texts from early Christian writers, including works later banned as heretical (Moss, 2016). Recent research such as Panella's M3C thesis on Galatians Catenae, the Codex Zacynthius project and the ERC CATENA project offers an unparalleled environment to study these manuscripts.My research will build on these freshly-created resources to advance a new understanding of the early commentary tradition on Ephesians-one of the key Pauline Epistles, sometimes described as a summary of Paul's theology (Lincoln, 1998). My central research question considers how the collection of diverse theological commentators demonstrated in the earliest form of Ephesians catenae impacted the interpretational methodology of the pre-medieval church.This project aims to produce the first-ever critical edition of this commentary and to compare its theological methodology with that of contemporary Western interpretational constructs. In preparation to produce this edition, I have begun classifying the existing documents into the categories of Staab and the Clavis Patrum Graecorum. Those manuscripts attesting to the earliest commentary form will be fully transcribed. These transcriptions will be collated for the production of the final digital edition with hyperlinks to each file. The completion of the edition will then enable critical engagement with the theological nature of the commentaries it contains.By recovering these early voices of the Christian community, some lost through time, the modern church will be able to reconnect with forgotten interpretational methodologies potentially shifting modern hermeneutical approaches in ways more aligned with previous centuries. Additionally, this work will serve as a template for future critical editions of other, similar commentary manuscripts of the Bible.