journal: Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies

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Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies

ISSN: 1097-3702

Editor-in-chief: George Kiraz

Edited by: J. Edward Walters, Ute Possekel

About this journal

Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies is an electronic journal dedicated to the study of the Syriac tradition, published semi-annually (in Winter and Summer) by Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute. Published since 1998, Hugoye seeks to offer the best scholarship available in the field of Syriac studies.

The word Hugoye, the plural form of Hugoyo, derives from the root hgʾ meaning 'to think, meditate, study'. Hugoyo itself means 'study, meditation'. In modern times (i.e. Kthobonoyo Syriac), the term has been applied for academic studies; hence, Hugoye Suryoye translates as 'Syriac Studies'.

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Editorial

General Editor:
George Anton Kiraz, Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute

Associate Editor:
J. Edward Walters, Rochester College

Editorial Committee:
Adam Becker, New York University
Sebastian Brock, University of Oxford
Aaron Michael Butts, Catholic University of America
Jeff Childers, Abilene Christian University
Muriel Debie, CNRS Paris
Sidney Griffith, Catholic University of America
Amir Harrak, University of Toronto
Susan Harvey, Brown University
Mor Gregorios Y. Ibrahim, Mardin-Edessa Publishing House
Andreas Juckel, University of Münster
Hubert Kaufhold, Oriens Christianus
Robert Kitchen, Canada
Kathleen McVey, Princeton Theological Seminary
Heleen Murre-van den Berg, Leiden University
Wido T Van Peursen, The Peshitta Institute of Leiden University
Ute Possekel, Harvard Divinity School
Lucas Van Rompay, Duke University
Alison Salvesen, University of Oxford
Hidemi Takahashi, University of Tokyo
Jack Tannous, Princeton University

Book Review Editor:
Ute Possekel, Harvard Divinity School

Conference Reports Editor:
Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent, Marquette University

Technical Advisor:
Thomas Joseph, Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute

Former Contributors:
Kristian Heal (Book Review Editor, 2001-2011)
William Petersen (Editorial Board Member, 1998-2006†)
Konrad Jenner (Editorial Board Member, 1998-2006)
Monica Blanchard (Book Review Editor, 1999-2001)
Tawny L. Holm (Assistant Editor, 2000)
Douglas F. Salmon (Assistant Technical Editor, 1999-2000)

Volume 24 Issue 1

October 2021

Publicly Available January 5, 2024

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HUGOYE 24. Issue 1

Articles

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Anxious Vigilance: Heresy and Ritual Pollution in John of Tella and Severus of Antioch

Christine Shepardson

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Anti-Chalcedonian Christians like John of Tella, Severus of Antioch, Philoxenos of Mabbug, and John Rufus were concerned about orthodox Christians mingling with heretics. This essay argues that John of Tella combined narratives of heresy with those of bodily purity and pollution, such as those related to menstruation, to frame heretics as dangerous to orthodox Christians not only in their beliefs that could lure an unsuspecting Christian to accept heretical views, but in their very bodies whose proximity brought the threat of contamination. John integrated expectations of bodily purity and doctrinal orthodoxy in ways that suggested that heresy could physically contaminate, while Severus tried to calm his congregants’ fears about the same. The spread of COVID- 19 and the global responses to it have heightened our awareness of the dynamics of fear and anxiety that can be produced by threats of physical contamination. The global pandemic in 2020 thus helps to clarify the power that the rhetoric of these sixth-century anti-Chalcedonian texts had to confront the spread of what John of Tella implied was the dangerous physical pollution of Christian heresy.

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A New Tool for Computer Assisted Paleography: The Digital Analysis of Syriac Handwriting Project

Michael Penn, Vijoy Abraham, Scott Bailey, Peter Broadwell, R. Jordan Crouser, Javier de la Rosa, Nicholas Howe, Simon Wiles

Page range: 35-52

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Over the last nine years, a forty-seven-person digital humanities project has explored the feasibility of computer assisted paleography for Syriac. That is, could one use big data, visual analytics, and recent advances in the digital analysis of handwriting to better understand Syriac manuscripts and Syriac manuscript culture? Last June we launched the public-facing part of our project titled the “Digital Analysis of Syriac Handwriting” or DASH (dash.Stanford.edu). DASH consists of digital page images from 90% of the world’s surviving Syriac manuscripts securely dated to before the twelfth century, as well as 90,000 individually trimmed letters from these manuscripts. In addition to introducing this tool to scholars of Syriac, this article presents a series of novel visualization tools that can also serve as a starting point for digital paleography projects in other linguistic traditions.

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The Chronological Development of Adjectives in –aya up to 725

Sebastian Brock

Page range: 53-126

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Whereas early Syriac writers make only a restricted use of adjectives in -aya, in seventh-century authors large numbers are to be found. The present contribution aims to chart this development by providing an alphabetical listing of these forms and their attestation both in Syriac authors and in translations from Greek.

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Men of Letters in the Syriac Scribal Tradition: Dawid bar Pawlos, Rabban Rāmišoʿ, and the Family of Beṯ Rabban

Nick Posegay

Page range: 127-186

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Dawid bar Pawlos’ Letter on Dots is an eighth-century text that purportedly describes the introduction of some of the dots used in Syriac writing. It also sheds light on the life of a certain Rāmišoʿ of Beṯ Rabban, apparently the same man as the master of pointing named in MS BL Add. 12138. However, most studies of Syriac dots either neglect or completely discount this letter as a reliable source, since it suggests that Miaphysite scribes had a direct influence on East Syriac reading traditions. This article provides a more critical analysis of the letter, first examining the problematic state of its extant manuscripts, and then evaluating the text to determine its historical plausibility in the context of seventh-century northern Mesopotamia.

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“The History that Should be Placed at the Beginning of the Book of Paul the Apostle”: New Evidence for the Syriac Euthalian Apparatus in Apocryphal Texts

Jacob A. Lollar

Page range: 187-216

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This paper introduces some overlooked witnesses to the Syriac translation of the Euthalian Apparatus found in apocryphal narratives about Paul. The narratives entitled the “History of Paul”, the “Martyrdom of Paul the Apostle and the Discovery of His Severed Head”, and “The History That Should be Placed at the Beginning of the Book of Paul the Apostle” preserve portions of the prologue to Paul’s Epistles attributed to Euthalius. These narratives circulated independently from New Testament manuscripts where the Euthalian Apparatus typically circulates as paratextual material. They are clearly dependent on the Euthalian prologue and are valuable witnesses for understanding the development and use of the Apparatus in Syriac. These three narratives appear to preserve an early version of the Euthalian Apparatus prior to the insertion of the martyrium Pauli in the fifth century.

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Bibliographies: Recent Publications on Syriac Topics: 2020

Sergey Minov, Grigory Kessel, Sebastian P. Brock

Page range: 217-298

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Bibliographies: Bibliography of Syriac and Christian Arabic Studies in Russian, 2020

Grigory Kessel

Page range: 299-316

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Book Reviews

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HUGOYE 24. Issue 2

In Memoriam

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In Memoriam: Mary T. Hansbury

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent

Page range: 375-376

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In Memoriam: Prof. Dr. Nikolai N. Seleznyov

Sergey Minov

Page range: 377-390

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In Memoriam: Yusuf Matti Ishaq

Amir Harrak

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Articles

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Considerations in Rendering in a Church Bible

Jerome A. Lund

Page range: 395-410

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During the revision of the Antioch Bible, the question of how ګﻪﻌףּ ڪ﷼ should be translated arose. Currently, different translators have offered different solutions. This essay will trace the history of the term from the original translators of both the Old and New Testaments, through the commentators, and then through the lexicographers. The essay will offer a solution to the problem going forward.

Open Access January 5, 2024

Manichaeism and the Revelation of the Magi: Syriac “Christianities” in Late Antique Mesopotamia

Timothy Pettipiece

Page range: 411-452

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The recently published Syriac Revelation of the Magi has proven to be a remarkable addition to the corpus of early Christian apocryphal literature. This unique amplification of the traditional Nativity narrative recounts the Magi’s encounter with a “star-child” who leads them from their homeland in the far east to the birth of Jesus at Nazareth, where the polymorphic nature of Christ is revealed along with his message of universal salvation. Interestingly, the Revelation of the Magi contains several important points of contact with early Manichaean texts. This paper will examine what those shared motifs might tell us about the common milieu out of which both Manichaeism and the Revelation of the Magi might have emerged.

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The Text of Acts in MS Bibl. Nationale Syr. 30

Daniel L. Mcconaughy

Page range: 453-490

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This paper extends Andreas Juckel’s important 2009 article, “Research on the Old Syriac Heritage of the Peshitta Gospels: A Collation of MS Bibl. Nationale Syr. 30” (Hugoye 12.1, 41-115). The research herein is based on collating the text of Acts contained in this noteworthy Syriac Biblical manuscript against the standard Peshitta text and forty-two other Peshitta manuscripts and more than one hundred fifty Syriac patristic sources. The collations show that the text of Acts in BNS30 has approximately 230 non-orthographic variant readings, of which 117 are unique variants not found in other Peshitta, Harklean or Christian Palestinian Aramaic MSS of Acts. There are approximately 51 agreements with the Harklean version. This paper shows that the statistical textual profile of Acts in MS Bibl. Nationale Syr. 30 is consistent with Juckel’s findings regarding the Gospel text of this manuscript. It also provides analyses of selected readings and a complete collation of the manuscript.

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Publishing Syriac Aristotle: Some Notes on D. King’s Edition of Categories

Yury Arzhanov

Page range: 491-518

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Daniel King’s book The Earliest Syriac Translation of Aristotle’s Categories may be considered the first critical edition of a Syriac translation of Aristotle’s works. Thus, it raises a number of questions of textual criticism that may be discussed against the background of D. Gutas’ research in the field of Graeco-Arabic studies. This article provides a critical review of the book and a description of the new online publication of the anonymous Syriac translation of Aristotle’s Categories in the HUNAYNNET database.

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How to Edit Aristotle in Syriac: Response to Arzhanov

Daniel King

Page range: 519-536

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Bibliographies: A Bibliography of Japanese Publications on Syriac Christianity: 2019-2020

James Harry Morris

Page range: 537-540

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Book Reviews

Page range: 541-571

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First published: January 2, 2007
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Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Anxious Vigilance: Heresy and Ritual Pollution in John of Tella and Severus of Antioch

Abstract

A New Tool for Computer Assisted Paleography: The Digital Analysis of Syriac Handwriting Project

Abstract

The Chronological Development of Adjectives in –aya up to 725

Abstract

Men of Letters in the Syriac Scribal Tradition: Dawid bar Pawlos, Rabban Rāmišoʿ, and the Family of Beṯ Rabban

Abstract

“The History that Should be Placed at the Beginning of the Book of Paul the Apostle”: New Evidence for the Syriac Euthalian Apparatus in Apocryphal Texts

Abstract

Bibliographies: Recent Publications on Syriac Topics: 2020

Bibliographies: Bibliography of Syriac and Christian Arabic Studies in Russian, 2020

Book Reviews

In Memoriam: Mary T. Hansbury

In Memoriam: Prof. Dr. Nikolai N. Seleznyov

In Memoriam: Yusuf Matti Ishaq

Considerations in Rendering in a Church Bible

Abstract

Manichaeism and the Revelation of the Magi: Syriac “Christianities” in Late Antique Mesopotamia

Abstract

The Text of Acts in MS Bibl. Nationale Syr. 30

Abstract

Publishing Syriac Aristotle: Some Notes on D. King’s Edition of Categories

Abstract

How to Edit Aristotle in Syriac: Response to Arzhanov

Bibliographies: A Bibliography of Japanese Publications on Syriac Christianity: 2019-2020

Book Reviews