Эфиопский Человек Божий. Заметки о сирийских влияниях в ранней эфиопской агиографии

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета. Серия 3: Филология. 2015. Т. 5 (45). С. 47–60.

Muraviev A.

The Second Evangelisation of the Axumite kingdom was operated by Syrian monks coming from Roman Empire. They brought to Axum some important practices from their original places. These ensured their missionary success but they also introduced some novelties into social practices of local Christians. One of these practices was the name change as a consequence of ascetic behavior. Syriac ascetics either rejected their names of took upon themselves new Christian names like Man of God, Man of Christб Minister of Christ. Some of these rejection cases are well known from the Syriac monastic tradition (e. g. Alexius), other did not reject the name but showed themselves reluctant to accept old names (like Archelides). In Axum Za-Mikael Arägawi and НуMata Libanos were good examples of the implementation of these practices. In doing that Ethiopic ascetic of Syriac background tried to re-establish the society they were living in on new evangelical cornerstone — the new world should reject the old one.

Keywords: hagiography, аскетизм, Syriac, сирийский, asceticism, Oriental languages, Эфиопская (геэз) литература, Ethiopic, Ethiopian Christianity, христианство в Эфиопии