ZBÍRAL, David. A Compilation from Old Testament Sapiential Books in the Cathar Manuscript of the Liber de duobus principiis: Critical Edition with Commentary. Graeco-Latina Brunensia. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015, vol. 20, No 1, p. 149-173. ISSN 1803-7402.
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Original name A Compilation from Old Testament Sapiential Books in the Cathar Manuscript of the Liber de duobus principiis: Critical Edition with Commentary
Authors ZBÍRAL, David (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition Graeco-Latina Brunensia, Brno, Masarykova univerzita, 2015, 1803-7402.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
WWW Digitální knihovna FF MU
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/15:00080864
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Keywords (in Czech) katarství; kataři; Církev Desenzana; Albanenses; středověká hereze; biblická exegeze; mudroslovná literatura; mudrosloví; Starý zákon; kompilace; Liber de duobus principiis; edice
Keywords in English Catharism; Cathars; Desenzano Church; Albanenses; medieval heresy; biblical exegesis; sapiential books; wisdom literature; Old Testament; compilation; Liber de duobus principiis; edition
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Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Vendula Hromádková, učo 108933. Changed: 3/3/2016 13:25.
Abstract
The manuscript J II 44, held by the National Central Library of Florence (Firenze, Biblioteca nazionale centrale, Conventi soppressi, ms. J II 44, also known under the shelf mark I II 44), contains several theological treatises originating in the heterodox milieu of mid-thirteenth-century Lombard Cathars from the Desenzano Church who were also called Albanenses. The main works in the manuscript – The Liber de duobus principiis and the Florence Ritual – were competently edited by Antoine Dondaine and Christine Thouzellier in the 1930s and 1970s. However, smaller pieces, additions, and marginalia in the manuscript have attracted less attention. Some of them remain unpublished and have passed almost unnoticed in recent scholarship. Probably the most interesting of these unpublished parts is a compilation from Old Testament sapiential books on fol. 51v-53r. This article provides an edition of this piece with an introduction and commentary explaining its interest. The compilation is by no means a result of the haphazard copying of biblical passages. Quite to the contrary, it shows careful and focused theological work. Albeit written down and most probably also compiled by the Cathar redactor of the Florence manuscript, this collection of quotes departs from what we know about Catharism, and serves as a warning against interpreting Catharism as a theological system limited to dualism, soteriology, and the criticism of the Catholic Church. No less importantly, however, this sapiential compilation and the Florence manuscript in general also help us to avoid the other extreme: interpreting Catharism merely as a popular movement with virtually no elements of theological learning.
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GAP401/12/0657, research and development projectName: Prameny ke studiu nesouhlasných náboženských hnutí ve středověkém západním křesťanství se zaměřením na katarství
Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Sources for the Study of Dissenting Religious Movements in Western Medieval Christianity with Special Focus on Catharism
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