The Melkite martyrs of the Mamluk epoch and historical memory of the orthodox arabs [PDF]
The Mamluk epoch was a period of deep decline of the Christian East. In the conditions of permanent religious persecutions, the cult of saints and martyrs consolidated the Middle Eastern Greek Orthodox (Melkite) community and ensured its positive self ...
Konstantin Panchenko
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Christian Arabic book making in the mountains of Samtskhe: from the history of contacts between Georgia and the church of Antioch at the latter half of the 15th century [PDF]
The 15th century was a period of deep decline and isolation of the Rum Orthodox Church of Antioch. Nevertheless, exactly in this time contacts between the Arab Christians and Georgian lands became more intense.
Konstantin Panchenko
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Correspondence between Patriarch of Alexandria Gerasimos Palladas and christians of the Church of Antioch: historical and textological aspects [PDF]
Several decades preceding the split of the Church of Antioch into Orthodox and Catholic branches in 1724 are the least studied period in the early Modern history of the Orthodox Middle East.
Pavel Ermilov +2 more
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To the Source Studies of the Byzantine Accounts of the Spiritual Centers in Palestine
The review of the sources includes the characteristics of such literary monuments as the texts of the Holy Scripture of the Septuagint, sermons, spiritual hymns, and hagiography.
Mikhail Vadimovich Bibikov
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The orthodox arabs and Mar Saba monastery in the 16th and early 17th centuries (according to the data from arab christian manuscripts) [PDF]
This article deals with little-studied Christian Arab manuscripts of the 13th and 17th centuries from the collection of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem associated with Mar Saba Monastery.
Konstantin Panchenko
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“Dark age” of palestinian monasticism: decline and revival of near eastern monasteries at the turn of mamluk and ottoman epochs [PDF]
This article analyses the fates of Near Eastern monasteries, primarily Sinai monastery of St. Catherine and Palestinian monastery Mar Saba in the “darkest” period of their history, namely the second half of the 15th — fi rst half of the 16th centuries ...
Konstantin Panchenko
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Christian intelligence service in the Mamluk state of the 14th century: an unexpected perspective [PDF]
This article deals with a mysterious side note in the manuscript of an Arabic Christian prayer book, now kept in Sinai monastery of St. Catherine (Sin. ar. 241).
Konstantin Panchenko
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«Путешествие» на Христианский Восток киевского мещанина Владимира Смирнова — неизвестный источник о русском паломничестве первой половины XIX в. [PDF]
В научный оборот вводится фрагмент паломнического дневника, принадлежавшего киевскому мещанину Владимиру Смирнову и сохранившегося в рукописях РГБ. Ф. 310 (собр. Ундольского). № 1032 и РГБ. Ф. 17 (собр. Барсова). № 521.2.
Федорова Ирина Владимировна
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An archaic cycle of the lenten “idiomela of the day” in the Syro-melkite Tropologion Sinait. syr. 48 [PDF]
The article focuses on the early history of the corpus of daily lenten “idiomela of the day” — one of the most important hymnographic cycles of the byzantine Lenten Triodion, its origins dating back to the earliest stages of the Jerusalem liturgical ...
Aleksandr Lukashevich
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The principle of preserving the syllabic structure in the syromelkite translations of hymnographic texts (on the material of the idiomela of the Lenten Triodion) [PDF]
The article describes the application of the equimetric principle in translating hymnographic texts from Greek into classical Syriac. The meaning of the term “equimetric translation” is specified, and terminological analogies are provided.
Aleksandr Lukashevich
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