The multilingual Physiologus : studies in the oldest Greek recension and its translations / edited by Caroline Macé, Jost Gippert

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Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English, Arabic, Armenian, Church Slavic, French, Georgian, Ethiopic, Greek, Ancient (to 1453), Latin, Syriac, Modern Original language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Series: Instrumenta patristica et mediaevalia ; research on the inheritance of Early and Medieval Christianity ; 84Publisher: Turnhout, Beligum : Brepols, 2021Description: 1 Online-Ressource (661 pages, xxiv pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), facsimilesISBN:

9782503589756

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Additional physical formats: 9782503589749. | Erscheint auch als: Multilingual Physiologus. Druck-Ausgabe. Turnhout, Beligum : Brepols, 2021DDC classification:

883/.0109 23

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PA4273.P9

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Summary: "The Physiologus is an ancient Christian collection of astonishing stories about animals, stones, and plants that serve as positive or negative models for Christians. Written originally in Greek, the Physiologus was translated in ancient times into Latin, Armenian, Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopic, Georgian, Arabic, and Old Slavonic. Throughout its transformations and adaptations, the Physiologus has never lost its attraction. The present volume offers an introduction to the significance of the Greek text, a new examination of its manuscript tradition, and a completely revised state of the art for each of the ancient translations. Two chapters of the Physiologus, on the pelican and on the panther, are edited in Greek and in each translation. These editions are accompanied by a new English rendering of the edited texts as well as short interpretative essays concerning the two animals. The volume affords new insights into this fascinating book's diffusion, transmission, and reception over the centuries, from its composition at the beginning of the third century CE in Alexandria to the end of the Middle Ages, and across all regions of the Byzantine Empire, the Latin West, Egypt and Ethiopia, the Middle East, the Caucasus, and Slavia orthodoxa."--Back coverPPN: PPN: 1922681695Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB

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English text, with selections in Ancient Greek, Arabic, Armenian, Church Slavic, Ethiopic, French, Georgian, Latin, and Syriac, with parallel English translations from the Ancient Greek, and parallel English translations from the Arabic, Armenian, Ethiopic, Georgian, Latin, Old Slavonic, and Syriac translations from the original Ancient Greek