Հետապնդելով Դանիէլեան Նշանագրերը
| dc.contributor.author | Անդրանիկ վրդ. Կռանեան | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-07-25T05:56:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-07-25T05:56:46Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1991 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this paper is to examine the alphabet which the Syrian bishop Daniel had been keeping with him and later trans-mitted to St. Mesrob, the inventor of the Armenian alphabet. The author starts by observing that ever since it first appeared on the scene of history, this alphabet was acknowledged as and specifically termed The Armenian alphabet» according to reports by Armenian historians of the 5th and 6th centuries: Korioun, Lazarus of Parbe and Moses of Khoren. Next, the author tries to clarify the origin of this terminology. On the bases of text analysis, he concludes that Armenians were not the inventors but only the users of this alphabet. These mysterious scripts had been invented by others, then were abandoned and then adopted by the Armenians, exclusively. Then again, they were in turn abandoned by the Armenians in bygone times. In order to locate, within Armenian history, the precise periods of use and disuse of this alphabet, the author proceeds by exclusion. In pagan Armenia, two cultural focal centers co-existed: the royal palace and the pagan temples. Since the members of the royal court were known to use the script and speech of Greece or Persia, it follows that the "Armenian alphabet" could not belong but to the pagan cult. The second disappearance of this alphabet at the time of St. Mesrob is explicable by the fierce persecution launched against Armenia paganism by King Tiridat and St. Gregory the Illuminator. Its reappearance in the hands of Bishop Daniel is explained by the fact that the young children of pagan priests, which were harbored BY St. Gregory then given a home and education in Christian centers Edessa and elsewhere outside Armenia, were in possession of this alphabet. The Syrian scholars promptly kept it in their archives, where from the Syrian bishop unearthed it, transcribed it as well as deciphering its code, and later transmitted both to St. Mesrob. This pagan origin could explain the silence and embarrassment observed by historians of that period, concerning the details of this mysterious alphabet In a forthcoming paper, the author will assert how this pagan alphabet by St. Mesrob and kept presently in the Armenian alphabet. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Կռանեան, Ա. վրդ., «Հետապնդելով Դանիէլեան Նշանագրերը», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 1991, Պէյրութ, էջ 147-179 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://haigrepository.haigazian.edu.lb/handle/123456789/663 | |
| dc.title | Հետապնդելով Դանիէլեան Նշանագրերը |
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