Ignatius of Antioch in a Medieval Syriac Orthodox Treatise on Divine Providence

Ignatius of Antioch in a Medieval Syriac Orthodox Treatise on Divine ProvidenceLe MuséonSyriaca.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/SPT25BTK/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.AndyHilkensIgnatius of Antioch in a Medieval Syriac Orthodox Treatise on Divine Providencehttp://syriaca.org/cbss/SPT25BTKhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/SPT25BTKhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/SPT25BTKLe Muséon136:1-2202339-58This article investigates a late example of the Syriac reception of Ignatius of Antioch and his letters. A medieval Syriac Orthodox treatise on divine providence, which builds upon a letter of Jacob of Edessa on this topic, includes a paraphrase of Ignatius’ Letter to the Smyrnaeans and a short biography, which is a summary of his Martyrdom, enriched with other materials. This article includes a new edition and translation of this Ignatian material, based on the earliest extant manuscript, a fourteenth-century manuscript from Tur Abdin that is now in the library of the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate in Damascus, which was unknown to William Wright and Joseph Barber Lightfoot in 1889, when they published it on the basis of a later and corrupted manuscript in the Bodleian. Further, I investigate the value of this witness to the reconstruction of the earliest Syriac version of Smyrnaeans, based on comparisons with Arabic witnesses (translated from Syriac). The results seem to indicate that the biblical citations in the Syriac version were revised, perhaps on the basis of the Old Syriac gospels. Hilkens, Andy. “Ignatius of Antioch in a Medieval Syriac Orthodox Treatise on Divine Providence.” Le Muséon 136:1-2 (2023): 39–58. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.2143/MUS.136.1.3291854. Andy Hilkens, Ignatius of Antioch in a Medieval Syriac Orthodox Treatise on Divine Providence, Le Muséon 136:1-2 (2023): 39–58, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.2143/MUS.136.1.3291854.Greek FathersIgnatius of AntiochJacob of EdessaJacobitesOld Syriac GospelsVII-XVIII CEprimary sources [Syriac] + English translationprovidencetranslations from Greektranslations into Syriac