Yesterday, the latest issue of Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies (vol. 26/1) dropped. The journal contains two contributions that are potentially relevant to the study of manuscripts from St Catherine’s Monastery. The first is the latest installment of Sergey Minov’s and Grigory Kessel’s bibliography: “Recent Publications on Syriac Topics: 2022” (pp. 189-283). The bibliography lists… Continue reading New Research #3
Month: April 2023
New Research #2
Proofs came in for Variant Scholarship. A book about ancient texts in modern contexts. With @mokersel and @JjosseMunch. More info at https://t.co/Qbex6Oogxo pic.twitter.com/ecUhgEcpOj — Sidestone Press (@sidestonepress) February 20, 2023 Today, Neil Brodie, Morag M. Kersel, and Josephine Munch Rasmussen have published a fantastic-looking edited volume entitled Variant Scholarship: Ancient texts in modern contexts (Leiden:… Continue reading New Research #2
New Research #1
Christa Müller-Kessler (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) uploaded on her academia.edu page the preprint version of “The Missing Quire of Codex Climaci rescriptus Containing 1-2 Corinthians in Christian Palestinian Aramaic (Sinai, Syriac NF 38)“. Here’s the abstract from Müller-Kessler’s article: “The eighteenth quire of Codex Climaci rescriptus, which had been missing from the manuscript since its first publication,… Continue reading New Research #1
A Blog Dedicated to the Dispersed Manuscript Heritage of Saint Catherine’s Monastery
1. “The history of the Sinai library till the second half of the nineteenth century is mostly a history of its despoiling”.1 The Byzantinist Vladimir Beneshevich (1874-1938) made this statement as early as 1911. At that point, scholars were only just beginning to get an idea of the extent of this “despoiling”. Moreover, the… Continue reading A Blog Dedicated to the Dispersed Manuscript Heritage of Saint Catherine’s Monastery