In the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century, scribes around Lake Tana in northwestern Ethiopia translated and disseminated an Arabic apocryphal dialogue between Jesus and Peter. Recording exhortations and revelations meant to be passed on to Clement of Rome and other apostolic figures, the Mystery of the Judgment of Sinners (Myst. Sinners) contains a little-explored retelling of Genesis 2–3. In its rendition of the Adam and Eve’s time in the Garden of Eden, Jesus explains to Peter how commandment not to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was a test of their patience. In particular, Adam and Eve are marked as “children” and the fruit in terms of its “ripeness” or lack thereof. Here, I want to contextualize this claim of a dual immaturity between both the humans and plants in the Garden of Eden in terms of early Christian theological claims about the youth and imperfection of Adam and Eve.
{"title":"Edenic Children and Unripened Fruit","authors":"Chance Bonar","doi":"10.21071/cco.v21i.16143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/cco.v21i.16143","url":null,"abstract":"In the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century, scribes around Lake Tana in northwestern Ethiopia translated and disseminated an Arabic apocryphal dialogue between Jesus and Peter. Recording exhortations and revelations meant to be passed on to Clement of Rome and other apostolic figures, the Mystery of the Judgment of Sinners (Myst. Sinners) contains a little-explored retelling of Genesis 2–3. In its rendition of the Adam and Eve’s time in the Garden of Eden, Jesus explains to Peter how commandment not to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was a test of their patience. In particular, Adam and Eve are marked as “children” and the fruit in terms of its “ripeness” or lack thereof. Here, I want to contextualize this claim of a dual immaturity between both the humans and plants in the Garden of Eden in terms of early Christian theological claims about the youth and imperfection of Adam and Eve.","PeriodicalId":40269,"journal":{"name":"Collectanea Christiana Orientalia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141366149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article focuses on the Christian apocalyptic literature that was produced as a specific reaction to the emergence of Islam and the consolidation of the Islamic rule in the Eastern provinces of Byzantium. The discussion examines how these texts re-cycled, used and manipulated long established cultural stereotypes, biblical exegetical topoi and traditional apocalyptic motifs in order to construct an image of the Muslims as the symbolic “Other”.
{"title":"“The Abomination of Desolation”: Eastern Christian Apocalyptic Literature and the Symbolic Construction of Islam","authors":"E. Grypeou","doi":"10.21071/cco.v20i.15720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/cco.v20i.15720","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on the Christian apocalyptic literature that was produced as a specific reaction to the emergence of Islam and the consolidation of the Islamic rule in the Eastern provinces of Byzantium. The discussion examines how these texts re-cycled, used and manipulated long established cultural stereotypes, biblical exegetical topoi and traditional apocalyptic motifs in order to construct an image of the Muslims as the symbolic “Other”.","PeriodicalId":40269,"journal":{"name":"Collectanea Christiana Orientalia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139353570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Severus of Antioch is by far the most important author of the non-Chalcedonian churches. However, his life attributed to Athanasius of Antioch survived in few Coptic Sahidic texts and a single folio in Coptic Bohairic and three manuscripts in Arabic while there are other manuscripts that did not survive.
{"title":"A lost manuscript of the Book of Philalethes by Severus of Antioch","authors":"Y. Youssef","doi":"10.21071/cco.v20i.15728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/cco.v20i.15728","url":null,"abstract":"Severus of Antioch is by far the most important author of the non-Chalcedonian churches. However, his life attributed to Athanasius of Antioch survived in few Coptic Sahidic texts and a single folio in Coptic Bohairic and three manuscripts in Arabic while there are other manuscripts that did not survive.","PeriodicalId":40269,"journal":{"name":"Collectanea Christiana Orientalia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139353203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
La Vida de santa Eufrosine (VEuphr), originariamente escrita en griego, pertenece al grupo de narraciones denominadas de “santas travestidas” y constituye uno de los ejemplos más paradigmáticos de este tipo de biografías de mujeres piadosas, que pasan la vida en un monasterio masculino camufladas bajo la apariencia de un monje y, solo al final de la vida, se descubre su identidad para toda la comunidad.
{"title":"La Vida de santa Eufrosine (BHG 625-625b). Introducción, edición crítica y traducción","authors":"Ángel Narro, Israel Muñoz Gallarte","doi":"10.21071/cco.v20i.15724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/cco.v20i.15724","url":null,"abstract":"La Vida de santa Eufrosine (VEuphr), originariamente escrita en griego, pertenece al grupo de narraciones denominadas de “santas travestidas” y constituye uno de los ejemplos más paradigmáticos de este tipo de biografías de mujeres piadosas, que pasan la vida en un monasterio masculino camufladas bajo la apariencia de un monje y, solo al final de la vida, se descubre su identidad para toda la comunidad.","PeriodicalId":40269,"journal":{"name":"Collectanea Christiana Orientalia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139353391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The debates about various early ‘Christian’ communities are still in an incomplete and tumultuous never-ending process. This paper illustrates that the manufactured theories about ‘community’ or ‘tradition’ do not describe the particular social conditions of textualities such as the Gospel of Thomas. It is very common to the mainstream scholarship of the early Christianities to put together heterogeneous ideas and to understand them as forming a special type of singularity. This is, in our case, the idea of ‘apostle Thomas.’ The scholarly representatives have tried to use complex sets of borrowed methodologies in order to make the historical lines of flight of early Christianity ideas more appealing and to conceal the process of domestication of textualities as the Gospel of Thomas. They have intentionally constructed religious communities, several types of Christians, differences, and similarities; all these aspects have the purpose to join in one wide and domesticated ‘Thomasine’ tradition. This paper aims to follow the lines of flight as they are programmed by the Thomas-scholars in order to deconstruct such approaches and to provide an alternative reading perspective detached by any kind of theological agendum.
{"title":"The Gospel of Thomas and the Thomasine Tradition","authors":"Petru Moldovan","doi":"10.21071/cco.v20i.16304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/cco.v20i.16304","url":null,"abstract":"The debates about various early ‘Christian’ communities are still in an incomplete and tumultuous never-ending process. This paper illustrates that the manufactured theories about ‘community’ or ‘tradition’ do not describe the particular social conditions of textualities such as the Gospel of Thomas. It is very common to the mainstream scholarship of the early Christianities to put together heterogeneous ideas and to understand them as forming a special type of singularity. This is, in our case, the idea of ‘apostle Thomas.’ The scholarly representatives have tried to use complex sets of borrowed methodologies in order to make the historical lines of flight of early Christianity ideas more appealing and to conceal the process of domestication of textualities as the Gospel of Thomas. They have intentionally constructed religious communities, several types of Christians, differences, and similarities; all these aspects have the purpose to join in one wide and domesticated ‘Thomasine’ tradition. This paper aims to follow the lines of flight as they are programmed by the Thomas-scholars in order to deconstruct such approaches and to provide an alternative reading perspective detached by any kind of theological agendum.","PeriodicalId":40269,"journal":{"name":"Collectanea Christiana Orientalia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139353400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article presents a new study of the Christian Palestinian Aramaic palimpsest from the Cairo Genizah. It includes a number of new identifications. An appendix is added with three patristic texts.
{"title":"Recent Identifications among the Palimpsests from the Cairo Geniza:","authors":"Christa Müller-Kessler","doi":"10.21071/cco.v20i.16096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/cco.v20i.16096","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a new study of the Christian Palestinian Aramaic palimpsest from the Cairo Genizah. It includes a number of new identifications. An appendix is added with three patristic texts.","PeriodicalId":40269,"journal":{"name":"Collectanea Christiana Orientalia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139353582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Forness, Philip Michael, Jacob of Serugh, Homily on the Apostle Thomas and the Resurrection of our Lord. Edited and Translated. «Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium» 691, «Scriptores Syri» 266 (Leuven: Peeters, 2022), CLII+172 pp. ISBN: 978904294","authors":"J. Monferrer-Sala","doi":"10.21071/cco.v20i.16308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/cco.v20i.16308","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40269,"journal":{"name":"Collectanea Christiana Orientalia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139353129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Today in the Coptic Church a text precedes the Creed during several services of the Liturgy of the hours. This text has become known as the “Introduction to the Creed,” [IttC] and is generally recited in the same manner as the Nicene-Constantinopolitan creed that follows it.
{"title":"“We exalt you Mother of the True Light,” Coptic Hymn or Creed; and the Date of Origin.","authors":"Beniamin Zakhary","doi":"10.21071/cco.v20i.15721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/cco.v20i.15721","url":null,"abstract":"Today in the Coptic Church a text precedes the Creed during several services of the Liturgy of the hours. This text has become known as the “Introduction to the Creed,” [IttC] and is generally recited in the same manner as the Nicene-Constantinopolitan creed that follows it.","PeriodicalId":40269,"journal":{"name":"Collectanea Christiana Orientalia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139353198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
El manuscrito BHG 625b es una versión inédita de la vida de santa Eufrósine
手稿 BHG 625b 是圣欧福洛涅生平的未出版版本。
{"title":"Una versión inédita de la Vida de Eufrósine (BHG 625b) en el ms. Paris. gr. 1538","authors":"Israel Muñoz Gallarte, Ángel Narro","doi":"10.21071/cco.v20i.15722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/cco.v20i.15722","url":null,"abstract":"El manuscrito BHG 625b es una versión inédita de la vida de santa Eufrósine","PeriodicalId":40269,"journal":{"name":"Collectanea Christiana Orientalia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139353274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Baby Varghese, The Early History of the Syriac Liturgy: Growth, Adaptation and Inculturation. With English foreword from S. P. Brock and German foreword from M. Tamcke. Göttinger Orientforschungen, Syriaca 62. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021","authors":"Benjamin Lensink","doi":"10.21071/cco.v20i.16307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/cco.v20i.16307","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40269,"journal":{"name":"Collectanea Christiana Orientalia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139353422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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