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Altuigurische Texte der Kirche des Ostens aus Zentralasien

Old Uigur texts of the Church of the East from Central Asia


The book presents a full documentation of the Old Uigur texts of the Church of the East known from several places of Central Asia, mainly Bulayık and Kurutka in the Turfan oasis, as well as Xaraxoto, from the 10th to 14th century.
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SKU (ISBN): 978-1-4632-0551-5
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Publication Date: Sep 7,2015
Interior Color: Black
Trim Size: 8.25 x 10.75
Page Count: 326
Languages: German
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0551-5
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The book is intended to present a full documentation of the Old Uigur texts of the Church of the East known from several places of Central Asia, mainly Bulayık and Kurutka in the Turfan oasis, as well as Xaraxoto.

Our knowledge about the Christian communities in the Turfan oasis is very limited. Although there are some traces of an interrelationship between the Syriac, Iranian and Old Uigur text fragments, hardly anything can be stated in precise terms, the main reason being that we have no exact dates. The only possible period in which speakers of all these groups could communicate with each other is the tenth century, when Sogdian was still a spoken language. Most of the Old Uigur texts probably belong to the 13th or 14th centuries, while the Syriac texts necessary for the liturgy may have been used by both other groups.

The themes of the texts are very diverse. Starting with fragments of a creed (A) and the legend of the Magi (B), the survey continues with several fragments of prayers and confessional texts (C, D, E, F). A letter of petition (G) gives insight into the life of a monastery. The legend of Saint George is the topic of H, while a fragment of the apocryphal acts of Paul is given in I and J is a benediction on the occasion of a marriage. Other fragments could be identified only in a preliminary way (K to P). Q is a document with an ecumenical theme. R is a Syriac text in Uigur transcription, which has been edited by M. Dickens and the present author. Of special interest are the Uigur glosses in a Syriac liturgical manuscript now preserved in Taipei (S), which will be edited by A. Muraviev in a separate publication. The few but important texts from Xaraxoto (T to W) are also included here, amongst them a sermon of five folios in which some Syriac texts, e.g. Matt. 10:42, are quoted.

The texts have been presented in transliteration and/or transcription and in German translation. Several indexes will hopefully be useful to the researcher. Special attention has been paid to the personal names of Christian origin. Material collected from many other Old Uigur texts leads to the conclusion that people who, judging from their names, were Christians interacted in business affairs with people of Buddhist background. Splitting the index of words into one for the Turfan group (A to S) and one for the Xaraxoto group (T to W) was intended to give a better opportunity for further study of the slight linguistic differences between the two groups.

The book is intended to present a full documentation of the Old Uigur texts of the Church of the East known from several places of Central Asia, mainly Bulayık and Kurutka in the Turfan oasis, as well as Xaraxoto.

Our knowledge about the Christian communities in the Turfan oasis is very limited. Although there are some traces of an interrelationship between the Syriac, Iranian and Old Uigur text fragments, hardly anything can be stated in precise terms, the main reason being that we have no exact dates. The only possible period in which speakers of all these groups could communicate with each other is the tenth century, when Sogdian was still a spoken language. Most of the Old Uigur texts probably belong to the 13th or 14th centuries, while the Syriac texts necessary for the liturgy may have been used by both other groups.

The themes of the texts are very diverse. Starting with fragments of a creed (A) and the legend of the Magi (B), the survey continues with several fragments of prayers and confessional texts (C, D, E, F). A letter of petition (G) gives insight into the life of a monastery. The legend of Saint George is the topic of H, while a fragment of the apocryphal acts of Paul is given in I and J is a benediction on the occasion of a marriage. Other fragments could be identified only in a preliminary way (K to P). Q is a document with an ecumenical theme. R is a Syriac text in Uigur transcription, which has been edited by M. Dickens and the present author. Of special interest are the Uigur glosses in a Syriac liturgical manuscript now preserved in Taipei (S), which will be edited by A. Muraviev in a separate publication. The few but important texts from Xaraxoto (T to W) are also included here, amongst them a sermon of five folios in which some Syriac texts, e.g. Matt. 10:42, are quoted.

The texts have been presented in transliteration and/or transcription and in German translation. Several indexes will hopefully be useful to the researcher. Special attention has been paid to the personal names of Christian origin. Material collected from many other Old Uigur texts leads to the conclusion that people who, judging from their names, were Christians interacted in business affairs with people of Buddhist background. Splitting the index of words into one for the Turfan group (A to S) and one for the Xaraxoto group (T to W) was intended to give a better opportunity for further study of the slight linguistic differences between the two groups.

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ContributorBiography

PeterZieme

Peter Zieme is Emeritus of the Institute of Turcology at Free University, Berlin, Germany. At the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities he was a research member in the Turfan project. He pas published books and studies on Old Uigur culture of Central Asia.

  • Inhaltsverzeichnis (page 7)
  • Preface (page 9)
  • Vorbemerkung (page 11)
  • Einleitung (page 13)
    • Die Kirche des Ostens ("Nestorianismus") (page 13)
    • Grabinschriften (page 14)
    • Kunstzeugnisse (page 15)
    • Die Texte (page 16)
    • Zum Inhalt der christlichen Texte (page 17)
    • Moglichkeiten der Datierung (page 17)
    • Die in den altuigurischen Texten gebrauchten Worter fur Christ(en) (page 18)
    • Schriften (page 21)
    • Besonderheiten des Alphabets (page 22)
    • Zur Sprache (page 24)
    • Allgemeine Ubersicht uber die edierten Texte (page 25)
    • Texte aus der Turfan-Oase (page 25)
    • Texte aus Xaraxoto (page 26)
    • Texte aus Dunhuang (page 26)
    • Fundortte und Aufbewahrungsorte (page 26)
  • Bestandsaufnahme der christlichen Texte (page 29)
  • Texte aus der Turfan-Oase (page 43)
  • Texte aus Xaraxoto und Baita (page 151)
  • Indices (page 179)
  • Ausblicke (page 289)
  • Bibliographie und Abkurzungen (page 291)
  • Liste der Fragmente nach Fundorten (page 323)
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