Burri, Renate Marianne (12 September 2018). Fake? Alternative? The Two Versions of Palamas’ Third Letter to Gregory Acindynus Reconsidered (Unpublished). In: IXe Colloque International de Paléographie Grecque. Sorbonne et École normale supérieure, Paris. 10.-15.09.2018.
In 1974, the Jesuit scholar Juan Nadal Cañellas presented a new version of Palamas’ Third Letter to Gregory Acindynus that was completely different from the version published in 1953 by the Orthodox theologian John Meyendorff in many, but not all of its parts. Is this new letter version, extant only in Monac. gr. 223, a fake version, produced by Acindynus in order to destroy his former teacher and friend Palamas, who became his worst theological enemy in the Hesychast Controversy, as Meyendorff argued? Or does the version in Monac. gr. 223 rather represent Palamas’ original letter to Acindynus, whereas the other version is a fake, produced by Palamas himself in order to provide alternative facts and tone down statements of his bold theological conceptions and views, as Nadal Cañellas suggested?
This paper tries to shed new light on a document that played a decisive role in the Hesychast Controversy and again caused a fierce quarrel among scholars in the last quarter of the last century. I will examine to what extent an analysis of Monac. gr. 223 and its wider context can contribute to a better understanding of the dispute(s). At the same time, a closer look at Byzantine publication habits in general and the genre of Byzantine letters in particular will allow to reconsider the phenomenon of the two versions of Palamas’ Third Letter to Acindynus.
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06 Faculty of Humanities > Other Institutions > Walter Benjamin Kolleg (WBKolleg) > Center for Global Studies (CGS) |
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Burri, Renate Marianne |
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000 Computer science, knowledge & systems > 090 Manuscripts & rare books 200 Religion > 230 Christianity & Christian theology 200 Religion > 250 Christian pastoral practice & religious orders 200 Religion > 270 History of Christianity 400 Language > 480 Classical & modern Greek languages 800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism > 880 Classical & modern Greek literatures 900 History 900 History > 940 History of Europe |
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English |
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Renate Marianne Burri |
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20 Apr 2022 14:47 |
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05 Dec 2022 16:17 |
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https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/168160 |
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