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Document Details : Title: Trois relectures syriaques de la première des Homélies sur Luc de Cyrille d'Alexandrie Author(s): ENFREIN, Barthélémy Journal: Le Muséon Volume: 137 Issue: 1-2 Date: 2024 Pages: 75-99 DOI: 10.2143/MUS.137.1.3293315 Abstract : The present paper studies the reception in the Syriac milieux of the first homily on Luke by Cyril of Alexandria, focussing on two passages from this text. The first passage, commenting on the date of the census (Lk 2:1), has been long known and is preserved in a florilegium that the BL Add. 12,154 transmits. The second passage, explaining Lk 2:7, is now available thanks to J.-M. Sauget’s discovery of the whole homily in two homiliaries (Damas 12/20 and Damas 12/19) and is studied here for the first time. It is shown that the manuscripts indicate a polemical and a liturgical reception of Cyril’s text. Furthermore, this paper argues that the first homily from the In Lucam was known by Philoxenus of Mabbug when he wrote his Commentary on Matthew and Luke. Moreover, Moses bar Kepha seems to have used our text for his Commentary on Luke. We demonstrate that he quotes a whole paragraph of the homily in his Cause of the Celebration of the Nativity. This fact sheds light on his working methods. Hence, up to the 9th century, the Homilies on Luke enjoyed a wide reception across different genres, albeit with a greater posterity in the Syriac world than in the Greek world. |
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