Stories of Piety and Resistance: The Historiographical Excerpts of ms. DS 28A

Stories of Piety and Resistance: The Historiographical Excerpts of ms. DS 28AJournal of Eastern 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/M87V2DU9/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.GiorgiaNicosiaStories of Piety and Resistance: The Historiographical Excerpts of ms. DS 28Ahttp://syriaca.org/cbss/M87V2DU9https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/M87V2DU9https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/M87V2DU9Journal of Eastern Christian Studies75:1-2202340-120The present paper edits and translates into English the Syriac historiographical excerpts contained in ms. Deir al-Surian, Syr. 28A (6th–7th c.). The manuscript features a significant collection of excerpts taken from the Syriac translation of Theodoret’s Ecclesiastical History, as well as a few excerpts coming from Eusebius and Socrates’ Ecclesiastical Histories, and from Flavius Josephus’ Jewish War. With the exception of the latter, all these excerpts are so-far unedited and unstudied. The present paper argues that these excerpts were carefully chosen and reshaped to fulfil a specific aim, i.e. showing through instructive examples how the Orthodox should resist and fight for their faith even at the cost of their lives, as well as how God always punished impious acts. Therefore, this collection contributes to the assessment of the originality of excerpting practices, and can help understand how such texts were used by the Miaphysite communities in their formative years. Nicosia, Giorgia. “Stories of Piety and Resistance: The Historiographical Excerpts of Ms. DS 28A.” Journal of Eastern Christian Studies 75:1-2 (2023): 40–120. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1163/17831520-20230032. Giorgia Nicosia, Stories of Piety and Resistance: The Historiographical Excerpts of Ms. DS 28A, Journal of Eastern Christian Studies 75:1-2 (2023): 40–120, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1163/17831520-20230032.Eusebius of CaesareaIV-VII CEJacobitesJosephusSocrates ScholasticusTheodoret of CyrusVII CEflorilegiumhistoriographytranslations from Greektranslations into Syriac