Annotating the New Testament: Codex H, Euthalian Traditions, and the Humanities

新约注释：Codex H、安乐传统和人文学科

• 批准号: AH/X001458/1
• 负责人: Garrick Allen
• 金额: $ 25.76万
• 依托单位: University of Glasgow
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX001458%2F1
• 关键词: Annotating; New; Testament; Codex; Euthalian

This project investigates a set of Greek New Testament manuscripts that contain one or more of the letters of the apostle Paul, the Catholic Epistles, and Acts from the New Testament. Many manuscripts containing these works include a range of annotations and prefaces (known as paratexts) called the Euthalian apparatus (or the Euthaliana). The Euthaliana include things such as lists of chapters and quotations, prologues for works or sub-collections, and accounts of Paul's life, death, and activities, among others. The Euthalian apparatus gets its name from the mention of an elusive 'Euthalius' in the colophons at end of some of the manuscripts, including the earliest available example, Codex H, from the 6th century CE. The Euthalian tradition is an important and overlooked resource for our understanding of several related areas: New Testament Canon: These manuscripts shed light on the complex process of the formation of the New Testament, highlighting the strategies involved in the transmission of particular collections of texts, and the ways they were understood. Early Christian Reading Practices: The paratexts that make up the Euthaliana enrich our picture of how early Christians interpreted, studied, and taught certain New Testament texts and how their framing of these texts was drawn from other ancient literature. Ancient Intellectual and Scribal Culture: Despite uncertainty about the identify of Euthalius, it is generally agreed that the apparatus can be traced back to a grammarian from late antiquity, likely associated with Caesarea in Palestine, an important intellectual hub where figures such as Pamphilus, Origen, Eusebius, and Jerome were active. The overall aim of this project is to compile and analyse manuscripts with the Euthalian apparatus, paying particular attention to Codex H as the earliest example of the tradition. Very little scholarly work has been carried out on the Euthaliana generally and Codex H in particular, which was taken apart from the 10th to the 13th century in the monastic community of the Great Lavra monastery on Mount Athos, where the individual leaves were used to bind other codices. Over time, these leaves found their way into museums across Europe and they are now damaged and difficult to read.The project's goals are: (1) To produce new digital images of the leaves of Codex H using multi-spectral technology, in order to maximise the readability of faded or damaged text. (2) To use these images to produce a new critical edition of Codex H in both digital and print format, featuring a transcription of the Greek text and an English translation of its text and Euthalian paratexts. (3) To create a catalogue of every Greek New Testament manuscript which displays one or more features of Euthalian apparatus, paving the way for future work on this tradition's textual and historical relevance to the study of the New Testament, early Christianity, literary and scribal culture, and the manuscripts as material objects. (4) To investigate the history and development of the Euthalian apparatus, especially as it relates to questions surrounding the New Testament and its formation as a collection, pedagogical habits in late antiquity, and the ways that traditions about the authorship and origins of particular texts were understood and communicated. (5) To further establish what the Euthaliana can reveal about late-antique scholarship in Caesarea and the wider eastern Mediterranean, including how the Euthaliana fit into the broader landscape of New Testament interpretation and the development of other paratextual material in Caesarea, like the Eusebian apparatus to the Gospels. (6) To encourage more direct and creative work with the individual manuscripts that preserve New Testament texts, which is made increasingly possible through the digital humanities.

该项目调查了一组希腊语新约手稿，其中包含使徒保罗的一封或多封书信、天主教书信和新约使徒行传。许多包含这些作品的手稿都包含一系列注释和序言（称为副文本），称为 Euthalian 装置（或 Euthaliana）。 Euthaliana 包括诸如章节列表和引文、作品或子集的序言以及保罗的生、死和活动的记述等内容。 Euthalian 装置得名于一些手稿末尾的版权页中提到的难以捉摸的“Euthalius”，其中包括最早的可用示例，即公元 6 世纪的 Codex H。安撒利亚传统是我们理解几个相关领域的重要但被忽视的资源： 新约正典：这些手稿揭示了新约形成的复杂过程，强调了特定文本集的传播所涉及的策略，以及它们被理解的方式。 早期基督教阅读实践：构成《Euthaliana》的副文本丰富了我们对早期基督徒如何解释、研究和教导某些新约文本以及他们如何从其他古代文献中汲取这些文本框架的了解。 古代知识分子和抄写文化：尽管尤他流斯的身份还不确定，但人们普遍认为，这种装置可以追溯到古代晚期的一位语法学家，很可能与巴勒斯坦的凯撒利亚有关，凯撒利亚是一个重要的知识中心，潘菲卢斯、奥利金等人物都在这里生活过。 、尤西比乌斯和杰罗姆都很活跃。该项目的总体目标是用 Euthalian 装置编译和分析手稿，特别关注 Codex H 作为这一传统的最早例子。一般而言，关于 Euthaliana 的学术工作很少，尤其是手抄本 H，该手抄本是从 10 世纪到 13 世纪在阿索斯山大修道院的修道院社区中取出的，在那里，单独的叶子被用来装订其他抄本。随着时间的推移，这些叶子进入了欧洲各地的博物馆，现在它们已被损坏且难以阅读。该项目的目标是：(1) 使用多光谱技术生成 Codex H 叶子的新数字图像，以便最大限度地提高褪色或损坏文本的可读性。 (2) 使用这些图像以数字和印刷格式制作新的 Codex H 重要版本，其中包括希腊文本的转录以及其文本和 Euthalian 副文本的英文翻译。 (3) 为每一份希腊语新约手稿创建一个目录，其中显示了 Euthalian 装置的一个或多个特征，为未来研究这一传统与新约、早期基督教、文学和抄写的文本和历史相关性的工作铺平了道路文化和作为实物的手稿。 (4) 研究安撒利亚机构的历史和发展，特别是它涉及围绕《新约》及其作为一部合集的形成的问题、古代晚期的教学习惯，以及有关特定文本的作者和起源的传统方式得到了理解和沟通。 (5) 进一步确定《Euthaliana》能够揭示有关凯撒利亚和更广泛的东地中海的晚期古董学术的内容，包括《Euthaliana》如何适应更广泛的新约解释景观以及凯撒利亚其他副文本材料的发展，例如《Eusebian》福音书的装置。 (6) 鼓励对保存新约文本的个人手稿进行更直接和创造性的工作，这通过数字人文变得越来越可能。