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Book SynopsisAncient translations of late antique Christian literature serve to spread the body of knowledge to wider audiences in often radically new cultural contexts. For the texts which are translated, their versions are not only sometimes crucial textual witnesses, but also important testimonies of independent strands of reception, cast in the cultural context of the new language. This volume gathers ten contributions that deal with translations into Latin, Syriac, Armenian, Georgian, Coptic, Old Nubian, Old Slavonic, Sogdian, Arabic and Ethiopic, set in dialog in order to highlight the range of problems and approaches involved in dealing with the reception of Christian literature across the various languages in which it was transmitted.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction: Trajectory, Marginalia, Selection: Issues in the Study of Versions of Late Antique Christian Literature Madalina Toca and Dan Batovici 1 Latin and Oriental Translations of the Epistola ad Timotheum de morte apostolorum Attributed to Dionysius the Areopagite Caroline Macé and Michael Muthreich 2 The Armenian Translations of John Chrysostom: The Issue of Selection Emilio Bonfiglio 3 The Armenian Reception of the Homilies of Jacob of Serugh: New Findings Andy Hilkens 4 St. Isaac of Nineveh’s Gnostic Chapters in Sogdian: The Identification of an Anonymous Text from Bulayïq (Turfan) Adrian Pirtea 5 Sacred Spices: The Syriac Reception of Gregory of Nyssa’s Homilies on the Song of Songs Marion Pragt 6 Four New Syriac Witnesses to the Middle Recension of the Ignatian Corpus Dan Batovici 7 The Reception of Isidore of Pelusium in Its Ancient Versions: Latin as a Case Study Madalina Toca 8 Manuscripts and Margins: The Case of the Late Mediaeval Slavonic Hexaemeron Collection or Šestodnevnik and Its Greek Source Text Lara Sels 9 Between Translation and Rewriting: The Nag Hammadi Corpus and the First Book of Enoch Francesco Berno 10 Translating Greek to Old Nubian: Reading between the Lines of Ps.-Chrysostom’s In venerabilem crucem sermo Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei and Alexandros Tsakos 11 A Fourth Ethiopic Witness to the Shepherd of Hermas Ted Erho 12 A Byzantine Bureaucrat and Arabic Philosopher: Ibrāhīm ibn Yuḥannā al-Anṭākī and His Translation of On the Divine Names 4.18–35 Samuel Noble Manuscript Index
