LEADER 02649nam 22004573 450 001 9910978072503321 005 20231110223521.0 010 $a2-503-58975-8 035 $a(CKB)5590000000489806 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6631438 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6631438 035 $a(OCoLC)1256236431 035 $a(NjHacI)995590000000489806 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000489806 100 $a20210901d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Multilingual Physiologus $eStudies in the Oldest Greek Recension and Its Translations 210 1$aTurnhout, Belgium :$cBrepols Publishers,$d2021. 210 4$dİ2021. 215 $a1 online resource (688 pages) 225 1 $aInstrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia ;$vv.84 330 $aThe Physiologus is an ancient Christian collection of astonishing stories about animals, stones, and plants that serve as positive or negative models for Christians. Written originally in Greek, the Physiologus was translated in ancient times into Latin, Armenian, Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopic, Georgian, Arabic, and Old Slavonic. Throughout its transformations and adaptations, the Physiologus has never lost its attraction.The present volume offers an introduction to the significance of the Greek text, a new examination of its manuscript tradition, and a completely revised state of the art for each of the ancient translations. Two chapters of the Physiologus, on the pelican and on the panther, are edited in Greek and in each translation. These editions are accompanied by a new English rendering of the edited texts as well as short interpretative essays concerning the two animals.The volume affords new insights into this fascinating book's diffusion, transmission, and reception over the centuries, from its composition at the beginning of the third century CE in Alexandria to the end of the Middle Ages, and across all regions of the Byzantine Empire, the Latin West, Egypt and Ethiopia, the Middle East, the Caucasus, and Slavia orthodoxa. 410 0$aInstrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia 606 $aDidactic literature 606 $aDidactic literature$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aDidactic literature. 615 0$aDidactic literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a299.31 700 $aMace?$b Caroline$0326583 701 $aGippert$b Jost$0467671 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910978072503321 996 $aThe Multilingual Physiologus$94324478 997 $aUNINA