一杯凉水——黑水城出土突厥语景教文献

A Cup of Cold Water: Folios of a Nestorian-Turkic Manuscript from Kharakhoto

新近得到的突厥语景教文献计有10页,出自黑水城,有些内容可以破译,有些仍模糊不清。可破译的部分,通过与敦煌汉语景教写本、《箴言》、《马太福音》等基督教经典进行比较,可见几乎所有可以辨识出来的内容都与布施或得到布施有关。该写本的发现,证明在黑水城一带曾经存在使用突厥语文本的信仰基督教的团体,写本内容虽然仅有部分被破解,其价值却不可低估,至少对黑水城遗址出土的突厥语景教文献的内容有了初步了解,应引起足够的重视。

The newly Nestorian-Turkic Manuscript was discovered from Kharakhoto, but in fact the con- tent is not clear. Indeed, Jesus the Messias is mentioned, but it seems to be a kind of colophon. Through the comparisons with the Nestorian manuscript of Dunhuang, the Proverbs, Matthew, and the Bible, we can find almost all the legible text passages are concerned with alms and the reward obtained by them. It also shows that there was a Christian community which made use of hooks in Turkic. The manuscript of which this paper be given a description, is a very valuable find of high importance, because so far we had knowledge of the in Turkic.