Updating the list of works of Ephraem Graecus, and a couple of articles in PDF

I have just updated the page with the list of the works of “Ephraem Graecus”.  This I compiled back in 2018.  I had occasion to look at it yesterday.  I also signed up again for the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) database.  Comparing the TLG reference numbers with the page, I found that they no longer aligned.  It seems that in the TLG two “works” had been merged together, and another one had been split into three.  So I updated the page.

Everyone who works with this massive splodge of Greek texts knows that the first editor, Assemani, just printed whatever he could find under the name of Ephraem in whatever manuscripts he had to hand.  This means that some of the “works” are duplicates, or partially so.

There is a list of what the duplications are, referenced to the volumes, pages and line numbers of the Assemani three volume edition.  It is D. Hemmerdinger, “Les doublets de l’édition de l’Éphrem grec par Assemani”, in: Orientalia christiana periodica 24 (1958), p. 371-382.  I was able to lay hands on a copy, and I have uploaded a PDF of the article here.  I’ve also put it at the top of the list of works page. The list is rather hard to work with, tho, because it is page numbers and lines.

D. Hemmerdinger-Iliadou also published a “detailed though sometimes disorganised analysis of the Ephraem Graecus corpus” in the Dictionnaire de Spiritualité, vol. 4 (1960), columns 800-815 (PDF here).  This I was able to lay hands on today.   This also contains a section on doublets (column 814 f.), rather more clearly organised and referencing the names of the works, and I have uploaded this article too.

(By the way I must apologise for the “tables of contents” that have started to appear on pages and posts, including the Ephraem Graecus list.  This is not my doing.  Something about the infernal WordPress software has changed.  When I find out how to turn these off, I will do so.  In the meantime, just minimise them.)