Neither Fish nor Fowl? A New Look at the Armenian Commentary on St. Cyril of Jerusalem's Lenten Catechetical Lections Traditionally Ascribed to Grigoris Aršaruni
Cowe, S. Peter · 2006
Investigates a text published in Constantinople in 1727–28 as a commentary on Cyril of Jerusalem's catechetical lectures and attributed to Grigoris Arsharuni, a seventh-century commentator on the Armenian lectionary. After analysing authorship, contents, scope and genre, Cowe argues the piece is not a self-contained composition but an integral part of a tonapatchar collection elucidating the theological significance of the liturgical year. He locates it within the development of that genre and tentatively proposes an origin in the monastic academies that flourished across the Armenian plateau in the tenth and eleventh centuries.
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Cowe, S. Peter 2006. Neither Fish nor Fowl? A New Look at the Armenian Commentary on St. Cyril of Jerusalem's Lenten Catechetical Lections Traditionally Ascribed to Grigoris Aršaruni. Le Muséon, Vol. 119, No. 3-4, pp. 307–319 (Peeters); DOI 10.2143/MUS.119.3.2017951. https://doi.org/10.2143/MUS.119.3.2017951
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A case study in how a text gets misattributed for three centuries, and how you catch it.
Genre and attribution analysis in Armenian liturgical literature.
The theology behind our church's feast days, and where it actually came from.
Correcting a 300-year-old misattribution in Armenian church literature.
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