Les Actes ethiopiens du diacre Etienne
by Damien Labadie
This new volume in the Apocrypha series presents the reader with a previously unpublished anthology of six Ethiopian texts dedicated to Saint Stephen, Christianity’s first martyr and first deacon. Stephen, the model deacon, is a particularly venerated figure in the Ethiopian Church. As early as late antiquity, and throughout the Middle Ages, texts translated from Greek and Arabic, as well as original compositions in Geez (classical Ethiopian), were produced, copied and adapted to the liturgy of the Ethiopian Church. The Ethiopian tradition on Stephen is thus singularly original and rich within the Christian East.
Ce nouveau volume de la collection Apocryphes presente au lecteur une anthologie inedite de six textes ethiopiens consacres a saint Etienne, premier martyr et premier diacre du christianisme. Etienne, modele du diacre, est une figure particulierement veneree dans l’Eglise ethiopienne. Des l’Antiquite tardive, puis tout au long du Moyen Age, des textes traduits du grec et de l’arabe, mais aussi des compositions originales en gueze (ethiopien classique), furent produits, copies, puis adaptes a la liturgie de l’Eglise ethiopienne. La tradition ethiopienne sur Etienne se revele ainsi, au sein de l’Orient chretien, singulierement originale et riche. Le premier texte presente est le Gadla ‘Estifanos (ou Actes d’Etienne), qui relate le combat epique opposant saint Etienne a deux magiciens. Ce recit etonnant, qui s’appuie sur l’episode biblique du martyre d’Etienne dans les Actes des apotres, ajoute nombre d’elements apocryphes et merveilleux. Sont egalement inclus, dans le present volume, la version gueze de la Revelation des reliques d’Etienne, qui eut lieu dans les environs de Jerusalem en 415, deux recits tires du Synaxaire ethiopien (un ouvrage a usage liturgique), puis une homelie medievale de Retu’a H?ym?not et, enfin, un sal?m (court poeme) en l’honneur du protomartyr. Une introduction generale sur l’histoire du culte d’Etienne, un glossaire des termes ethiopiens, une bibliographie exhaustive et plusieurs index completent le volume.
- By (author) Damien Labadie
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