{"id":17152,"date":"2017-06-14T20:57:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T19:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=17152"},"modified":"2017-06-14T20:57:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T19:57:40","slug":"reading-the-italian-translation-of-methodius-de-resurrectione","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2017\/06\/14\/reading-the-italian-translation-of-methodius-de-resurrectione\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading the Italian translation of Methodius “De resurrectione”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Italian translation of Methodius of Olympus, De resurrectione<\/em>, has arrived.\u00a0 I was able to order it from the publisher without undue difficulty (although IBS.it would probably have been easier, had I remembered them!)\u00a0 I have now scanned some of it, which\u00a0means that I can now use Google Translate on the Italian.\u00a0 Google Translate handles Italian well, so long as you read intelligently.<\/p>\n

I thought that I would give a page-worth, on the Old Slavonic translation of Methodius.\u00a0 Here it is:<\/p>\n

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The Corpus Methodianum<\/em>, however,\u00a0was preserved\u00a0in Old Slavonic. This translation was supposedly made in Bulgaria around the tenth century and was made accessible to the West by the end of the nineteenth century in the German translation of Bonwetsch, who edited\u00a0all the works of Methodius for the critical edition except those considered inauthentic. This\u00a0Old Slavonic\u00a0translation contains the almost complete text of De autexusio<\/em>, De resurrectione<\/em>, and\u00a0De lepra<\/em>, and also that of other works of which there was no\u00a0mention in\u00a0ancient testimonies, and of which there were no Greek remnants (De cibis<\/em>, De sanguisuga<\/em>, De vita<\/em>). The Greek text used for this translation seems to have been in good condition. It is translated to the letter, except in some\u00a0passages where we are faced with summaries (it is difficult to determine whether\u00a0this was done\u00a0by\u00a0the\u00a0Old Slavonic\u00a0translator, or found by him in the original). As we have mentioned earlier, Musurillo believes that the writings of Methodius have been handed down in Slavonic\u00a0because of\u00a0a happy error of attribution, because of the homonym with the 9th century evangelizer of the Slavs. Bracht criticizes this suggestion, noting that Musurillo does not provide reasons for this affirmation,\u00a0and considers it simpler to\u00a0attribute the interest in preserving his writings to the uninterrupted tradition of the Eastern Church,\u00a0which continued to\u00a0venerate Methodius as a saint, martyr and Doctor of the Church. Bracht does not exclude the idea that\u00a0the influence of the homonym, Methodius, apostle of the Slavs,\u00a0might have helped\u00a0preserve the writings; but not – as Musurillo suggests –\u00a0by error in\u00a0attribution. In his opinion, a stronger reason – in turn already advanced by Ivan Dujchev – would be this: the thesis of the De\u00a0autexusio<\/em> would be considered very\u00a0useful in order to counteract the doctrinal errors of the Bogomil heresy (a heresy that arose in Bulgaria around\u00a0the 10th century). These heretics affirmed a strong dualism. The refutation of any kind of dualism contained in the De autoexusio <\/em>of Methodius would have helped to get it translated.[ref]Italian: “Il Corpus Methodianum ci \u00e8 tuttavia rimasto in traduzione paleoslava. Tale traduzione \u00e8 stata realizzata presumibilmente in Bulgaria attorno al X secolo ed \u00e8 stata resa accessibile in occidente dalla fine del XIX secolo nella traduzione tedesca di Bonwetsch, che ha curato l’edizione critica di tutte le opere di Metodio, eccetto quelle considerate inautentiche 81 . Questa traduzione paleoslava contiene il testo quasi completo del De autexusio, del De resurrectione, del De lepra e quello di altre opere di cui non si aveva notizia da testimonianze antiche e di cui non erano rimastiframmenti greci (De cibis, De sanguisuga, De vita). Il testo greco di riferimento di questa traduzione sembrerebbe essere stato in buono stato. Esso \u00e8 tradotto alla lettera, tranne in alcuni punti in cui ci troviamo di fronte a riassunti (se del traduttore paleoslavo o degli originali stessi \u00e8 difficile a dirsz). Come abbiamo accennato,\u00a0 Musurillo ritiene che gli scritti di Metodio siano stati tramandati in slavo per un felice errore di attribuzione, a causa del!’ omonimia con l’evangelizzatore degli slavi del IX secolo 82. Bracht critica questa informazione, rilevando come Musurillo non offra motivi per questa sua affermazione, mentre ritiene pi\u00f9 lineare far risalire l’interesse per la conservazione dei suoi scritti all’ininterrotta tradizione della Chiesa orientale che ha continuato a venerare Metodio come santo, martire e Dottore della Chiesa 83. Bracht non esclude che un influsso dell’omonimia del Metodio apostolo degli slavi abbia potuto contribuire a salvare gli scrittz; ma non – come vuole Musurillo – per errore di attribuzione. A suo parere, un pi\u00f9 forte motivo – a sua volta gi\u00e0 avanzato da Ivan DujCev 84 – sarebbe questo: le tesi del De autexusio sarebbero state ritenute molto valide per contrastare gli errori dottrinali dell’ eresia dei bogomili (corrente eretica sollevatasi in Bulgaria attorno al X secolo). Questi eretici affermavano un forte dualismo. La confutazione di ogni tipo di dualismo presente nel De autexusio di Metodio avrebbe portato a favorirne la traduzione 85.”[\/ref]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I shall keep reading.<\/p>\n

PS: I wondered what Old Slavonic manuscripts were used for the Slavonic text.\u00a0 This is not stated; but two manuscripts – Q.I. 56a and Q.I. 57b\u00a0– are mentioned in footnotes.<\/p>\n

UPDATE (3\/3\/2018): An enquiry to the translator brought the following response:<\/p>\n

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I was using manuscript from Petersburg Q.I. 265. The numbers from 43 to 168 are the page numbers of this manuscript.\u00a0 For example, 57a is left hand side and 57 b – right hand side.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Useful to know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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