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SUMMARY:MPCD Guest Lectures
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DESCRIPTION:The lectures will take place in hybrid form. Join via Zoom:\n\
 nRoom: WARG-CERES-1.110\nhttps://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom.us/j/99380384710?pwd
 =OUVuMmgrcTlYQ0wzYUtzeXdtT3VMUT09\nMeeting ID: 993 8038 4710\nPasscode: 65
 1801\n\nDr. Carlo Marchetti (University of Rome\, 'La Sapienza')\n"Interdi
 sciplinary Approaches to Middle Persian Studies"\nAlmost two hundred years
  have passed since the start of methodologically grounded investigations o
 n Zoroastrian Middle Persian (Book Pahlavi). Yet\, a comprehensive approac
 h to all the aspects involved in this research\, albeit firmly rooted in s
 olid theoretical frames\, is still being refined. This presentation wishes
  to provide some reflections concerning three general aspects\, highlighte
 d by some notable examples: philological problems relating to critical tex
 tual editions (morphology\, lexicon\, syntax)\, specifically from manuscri
 pt MK\; palaeographical studies on Pahlavi codices\, in particular\, K20 a
 nd MK\; Zoroastrian manuscript production and transmission\, regarding esp
 ecially the information preserved in (multilingual) colophons attributed t
 o Mihraban i Kayhusraw. The general perspective used to tackle these three
  issues is to consider manuscripts not only for their literary contents bu
 t also as transmitters of cultural evidences\, as the two aspects are mutu
 ally intertwined. While in other comparable fields of study (e.g. Sanskrit
 \, Avestan\, Greek\, Latin)\, such general aspects have become disciplines
  in their own regard\, a Pahlavi researcher still needs to be proficient i
 n all of them to present a coherent result\, be it a critical edition\, th
 e description of a manuscript\, or the study of a cultural/religious conte
 xt.\n\nAngelica Gaspari (PhD Candidate University of Rome\, 'La Sapienza')
 \n"Manuščhir on Movement"\n\nManūščihr’s Dādestān ī Dēnīg is a
  complicated and multifaceted text in which identifying the sources of the
  author and the references to his contemporary milieu can be extremely cha
 llenging. In this talk\, I will discuss a very unique question\, pursišn 
 90. We will analyze the question\, underline the differences with other te
 xts\, try to understand the source of Manūščihr and try and prove not o
 nly that Manūščihr’s idea of movement is of apparent Aristotelian des
 cent (Physica III\, VI and VIII\; De Caelo I) but also that paragraphs 5 t
 o 9 are probably a translation from Greek. This section of the Dādestān 
 ī Dēnīg was previously edited by B.T. Anklesaria in 1964. However\, the
  edition lacked an exhaustive commentary\, which is probably why this ques
 tion still has not received the interest it deserves. Manūščihr replies
  to a question regarding the nature and the disposition of the sky\, but a
 fter a short comment\, the focus of the author shifts to movement. In para
 graph three\, there is a brief account of how things began to move after t
 he Drūž’s attack\; it is important to note that the adjective that the
  author uses to express the idea of movement linked to the Evil Spirit is 
 čandenag. In paragraph four\, we find the first reference to the dānāg
 ān (dānāgān čiyon-šān guft ku)\, whose opinion is quoted to explain
  motion\, and again\, the term used is čandenag. The most interesting par
 t of the question begins in paragraph  five and continues until paragraph
  nine\, where dānāgān is mentioned again (če rošn o dānāgān tisan 
 parwarend). It’s clear from the structure of the question that in these 
 chapters Manūščihr is quoting a source: the ideas change and so do the 
 terms used. For 37 times in just four paragraphs\, we find an incredible v
 ariety of nouns and verbs created from the root jumb-. The idea expressed 
 in these paragraphs is linked to\, but different from the chapters in Denk
 ard III on movement (147\, 371\, 380).
LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/mpcd-guest-lectures-24-May/
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