Re: Lost texts found by Swiss researchers (Procopius of Gaza)

From: Michael Kuettner (miksbg_at_eunet.at)
Date: 01/27/05 

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 01:40:07 +0100

"I.E_Johansson" <inger_e.xjohansson@telia.xcom> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:FGTJd.128841$dP1.461451@newsc.telia.net...
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> Yes there are. some in Rome. I know two scholars looking into that in

"Two scholars".
No names, as always.

> two archieves at present.

"Two archieves[sic]".
No names, as always.

> Some are in old monestries in Asia Minor.

"Old monestries[sic]".
No names, as always.

> A professor

"A professor".
No name, as always.

> from US with rootes there has for some years tried to catalogize and take
> copies of them Nothing officially published but I understood from one of
his
> 'students' today a professor himself in an other subject that it's to be
> published.

"One of his students".
No name, as always.

Go *** yourself, Ingwer.

Btw. - According to the amount of bull*** that you're posting,
your mourning for your godmother should be finished.
So what about the proofs you've promised in sci.arch after you've
finished mourning ?
And where's the source for the Habsburger claiming to be offspring
of Jesus Christ ?
Where are the "prime[sic] sources" for any of your brain-dead
claims ?

Sci.arch added; just to show you for the dishonest *** that you are.

A quick info for sci.arch (it might be of interest)
Roger Pearse posted :

"
I saw this in LT-ANTIQ, and have run it over into English for those
unfamiliar with French or German:

<http://www.unifr.ch/main/news/detail.php?nid=316>

>>From Gaza to Fribourg: an unpublished discovery

The chair of Classical Philology at the University of Fribourg has just
discovered some unpublished Greek texts dating from late Antiquity and
coming from the school of rhetoric at Gaza. The discovery is important
because it is today practically impossible to lay hands on manuscripts
with content dating from the 5th century.
It was while carrying out research on the manuscripts belonging to the
collections of the "Marciana" library at Venice and the French National
Library that Prof. Jacques Schamp and his assistant Dr. Eugenio Amato -
supported by the Research Fund of the University of Fribourg and the
Swiss National Fund - discovered the unpublished texts. These texts
are of considerable important, not only for their content but equally
because of their authors.

The oldest of these dates to the 5th and 6th centuries, and constitutes
a collection of letter between Procopius of Gaza - the Christian
sophist and orator (ca. 465-529) of the era of the emperors Anastasius
and Justin I - and the young lawyer Megethios, hitherto unknown. The
document is problematic for the high level of very metaphorical content
as well as the language (this is late Greek, rather than classical),
and furnishes new information to scholars about the life and works of
Procopius of Gaza. Head of the important school of rhetoric at Gaza,
this great connoisseur of the works of Homer notably played an
important role in the transmission of the biblical corpus, in
particular the Old Testament. On a linguistic level, the text newly
discovered by the Fribourg researchers brings to light words and
phrases characteristic of the language used in the late period.

The research by Prof. Jacques Schamp and his assistant Dr Eugenio Amato
is more complex. To locate unpublished texts, the classical
philologists first had to review and catalogue minutely the lists of
manuscripts reposing in the collections of the libraries. Once the
rare pearl was discovered, there begins the long labour of translation
and interpretation. In order to better understand the content of the
works and to compare translations, the Fribourg scholars worked with a
network of international scholars, notably with the Universities of
Gottingen, Milan and the Fordham University of New York.

This is the task to which Dr Eugenio Amato will be dedicating himself
from next March. The researcher considers that the decypherment and
translation of the original texts is fundamental. "In scholarship it
is a first principle not to work only on interpretation, but to well
and truly investigate the source of the texts. This basic task then
allows the interpretation of the facts and the construction of a
political, anthropological and sociological discussion on society in
the era of Procopius." The scholar will pubish soon the texts,
translated and with a commentary in Byzantinische Zeitschrift (vol
98.2, 2005), the specialist journal for Byzantine history and
archaeology.

Source
Service de Presse + Communication, tél. 026 300 70 34, e-mail
:press@unifr.ch <mailto:press@unifr.ch>
Information
Prof. Jacques Schamp, Dr Eugenio Amato, Tél. 026 300 78 32, e-mail :
jacques.schamp@unifr.ch <mailto:jacques.schamp@unifr.ch>,
eugenio.amato@unifr.ch <mailto:eugenio.amato@unifr.ch>. Site :
www.grrat.com/
Des photographies peuvent être téléchargées sous :
www.unifr.ch/press
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