景教敦煌早期写卷文本字句释义

Words and Sentences in the Dunhuang Nestorian Transcripts

一、早期景教写卷中的文本问题敦煌藏经洞的景教文献,流布世间,身世曲折,至今犹有传承不明者。今所存之文献,藏日本的有四种。其中一部是高楠顺次郎教授所藏的《序听迷诗所经》(后简称《序经》),亦称高楠文书。羽田亨博士曾称:"此盖敦煌出洞之珍,先藏中土某氏许。

Two early manuscript copies of"Nestorian"Scriptures in Dunhuang,including the Hsu T’ing Mi-shih-so Ching(Jesus Messiah Sutra)and Yi shen lun(Discourse on Monotheism),have recently been republished from Japanese holdings in Japan by Kyou-shooku in a volume entitled Dunhuang miji(Dunhuang Secrets).The two manuscripts have many features in common,such as the same handwriting,but also share many common problems,including missing words,hiatuses and misprints,creating hardto-understand sentences and textual disputes.These basic textual problems have hindered research on the manuscripts,and no single method exists to resolve all of the problems.This paper argues that only through continuous detailed research and collation and by comparison with other Dunhuang writings,ancient Chinese classics and Christian classics,can the texts become comprehensible,and that we should begin by defining and explaining difficult words and fragmented sentences in the texts.