Bachelor 2023/2024

Research Seminar "Philological-historical analysis of Syriac 'Cave of Treasures'"

Type: Compulsory course (Christian Orient)

Area of studies: Asian and African Studies

Delivered by: Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies

Where: Faculty of Humanities

When: 3 year, 1, 2 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Sergey Minov

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 28

Course Syllabus

Abstract

As part of this workshop, students will read (in the original language) and discuss, under the guidance of a teacher, Pseudo-Efremov's "Cave of Treasures," a 6th-century piece of classical Syriac literature that paraphrases a biblical story. The main goal of the seminar is to familiarize students with the methods of textual, philological and historical analysis in relation to Syriac works of the Late Antiquity. Particular attention will be paid to the problems of criticism of the text of the monument, its relationship with the biblical original, Jewish and patristic traditions of biblical exegesis, as well as the culture of Zoroastrian Iran.