Abstract:The Syriac Life of Maximus the Confessor has gained credibility in recent years at the expense of the Greek Life, leading scholars to prefer the Palestinian origin narrative of the Syriac Life over the Constantinopolitan origin narrative of the Greek Life. However, the Syriac Life has not yet been subject to a suitable examination that interrogates its representational strategies. This article examines the credibility of the Syriac Life through a literary and linguistic examination of the Syriac text, draws attention to the pitfalls of the enduring arguments in favor of the Greek Life, and concludes that these two origin narratives represent a false dichotomy. Instead, this study offers a radical reinterpretation of extant circumstantial evidence in the interest of promoting Maximus's African, perhaps Alexandrian, origins.

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忏悔者马克西姆斯的另一种生活：对叙利亚和希腊生活的重新评估及其亚历山大起源的案例

摘要：忏悔者马克西姆斯的叙利亚生活近年来以牺牲希腊生活为代价获得了可信度，导致学者们更喜欢叙利亚生活的巴勒斯坦起源叙事，而不是希腊生活的君士坦丁堡起源叙事。然而，叙利亚人的生活还没有经过适当的审查来质疑其代表性策略。本文通过对叙利亚文本的文学和语言学检验来检验叙利亚生活的可信度，提请注意支持希腊生活的持久争论的陷阱，并得出结论，这两种起源叙述代表了一种错误的二分法。相反，这项研究对现存的间接证据进行了彻底的重新解释，以促进马克西姆斯的非洲起源，也许是亚历山大起源。