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A Critical Edition of Georgius Pisides, In Sanctam Resurrectionem with Introduction and Commentary

    Frederick Bird

Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 72, pp. 97-124, 2023/03/29

doi: 10.1553/joeb72s97

doi: 10.1553/joeb72s97

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doi:10.1553/joeb72s97



doi:10.1553/joeb72s97

Abstract

This paper presents a new critical edition of Pisides’ Easter poem, In Sanctam Resurrectionem. The introduction gives a probable date of the poem’s first performance, a discussion of its genre, a description of the five manuscript witnesses to the poem (four extant, one destroyed), an analysis of the manuscript transmission and a brief description of modern scholarship on the text of the poem. Alongside the newly-edited text is the first full translation of the poem into English. Finally, a line-by-line commentary offers a detailed discussion of textual problems and some possible solutions, as well as presenting a new interpretation of some of the more difficult lines in the poem based on literary parallels and biblical references.

Keywords: Georgius Pisides; Resurrection; New Creation; Disease; Heraclius Constantine; Par. Suppl. gr. 690