The Collection and Transmission of Late Antique Liturgical Poetry: A Comparative ApproachJournal of Early Christian StudiesSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/KCB8IAJP/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Blake A.HartungThe Collection and Transmission of Late Antique Liturgical Poetry: A Comparative Approachhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/KCB8IAJPhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/KCB8IAJPhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/KCB8IAJPJournal of Early Christian Studies29:32021415-444This article examines the collection
and transmission of late antique liturgical poetry from a comparative
perspective, focusing on the work of three major poets: Ephrem (fourth century,
Syriac), Romanos (sixth century, Greek), and Yannai (sixth century, Hebrew).
While recent years have witnessed a growth in comparative study of these sources
as witnesses to a broader poetic tradition, this work has tended to overlook the
manuscript collections which transmit the poems. In this article, I argue that
we must revise how we think about late antique liturgical poems, shifting from
an emphasis solely on the original context of composition and recovering a
“pure” original version, to a focus on the manifold ways in which communities
interacted with the manuscripts of the poems over time. This approach, which
draws on the insights of the “new philology,” places analysis of scribal
cultures and textual fluidity at the forefront. Such a reframing, I argue, will
have significant implications for our conceptions of authorship and authorial
corpora, concepts which we traditionally elevate, but which were far more fluid
for the religious communities who preserved the work of late antique liturgical
poets.
Hartung, Blake A. “The Collection and Transmission of Late Antique Liturgical Poetry: A Comparative Approach.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 29:3 (2021): 415–44.
Blake A. Hartung, The Collection and Transmission of Late Antique Liturgical Poetry: A Comparative Approach,Journal of Early Christian Studies 29:3 (2021): 415–44.EphremEphrem [influence]IV-VII CEhymnographyliturgicspoetrytransmission