Metadata: Kiev Theological Academy
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Kyiv
- Holding institution (official language):
- Центральний державний історичний архів України, м. Київ
- Postal address:
- 03110, м. Київ-110, вул. Солом'янська, 24
- Phone number:
- 380 (044) 275-30-02
- Web address:
- cdiak.archives.gov.ua
- Email:
- mail.cdiak@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 711
- Title:
- Kiev Theological Academy
- Title (official language):
- Киевская духовная академия
- Creator/accumulator:
- Kiev Theological Academy
- Date(s):
- 1817/1919
- Language:
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Latin
- Extent:
- 22,632 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
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See also f. 160 (Kiev Theological Academy) and f. 304 (Dissertations of Students of the Kiev Theological Academy) of the V. I. Vernads'kyi National Library of Ukraine Institute of Manuscripts.
Many of the fond’s documents are devoted to issues of ancient Jewish history and Jewish-Christian relations. Among these are methodological materials on the study of Biblical history at religious seminaries; information on the teaching of Hebrew at the Kiev Theological Academy, and on the research and teaching activities of the Department of Hebrew and Biblical Archeology; personal and official documents of A. A. Glagolev, V. F. Ivanitskii, V. P. Rybinskii, and other of the academy’s Hebraica specialists; information on the acceptance of Jewish converts to Christianity among Kiev Theological Academy students; and instructions of the Holy Synod on opening a department of “anti-Jewish missionary work” at the academy (1893).
There is also correspondence of the Committee on Religious Censorship on research publications and translations from the Hebrew on Biblical history; on allowing publication of the books A Rabbi’s Supplement to the Book of Samuel in Answer to Jews’ Objections that New Testament Writers Supposedly Applied Old Testament Traditions to Jesus Christ that Did Not Pertain to Him (1830) and A Certain Something about the Present and Past of the Jews (1868); and there are student compositions on the subjects of “Kingly Power among the Ancient Jews according to Mosaic Law and Biblical-Historical Attestations”; “Saul and his Reign”; “The Theology of the Prophets Amos and Hosea, and its Relationship to the Religious-Moral Doctrine of the Pentateuch”; “The Holy Prophet Daniel, his Time, Life, and Activity”; “The Kingdom of the World and the Kingdom of God as Portrayed by the Book of the Prophet Daniel”; “The Attitude of Jews toward Persons of Other Lands and Faiths according to Biblical Attestations”; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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This was established on the basis of the reorganized Kiev-Mogila Academy, which had existed since the seventeenth century (receiving the status of academy in 1701). The Kiev Theological Academy offered higher education in theology, and was under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Orthodox Confession and the Holy Synod. It was in turn in charge of secondary religious educational institutions of the Kiev Religious-Educational District, which encompassed several provinces of western, southwestern, and southern Russia (from the Minsk to the Tiflis province). The Committee on Religious Censorship, which checked works and translations with religious content, operated at the Kiev Theological Academy from 1824-71. Internally, the Kiev Theological Academy was overseen until 1869 by its so-called conference [konferentsiia], and later by its council and administration, headed by a rector. It had a four-year curriculum. Per its 1869 charter (which subsequently underwent numerous revisions), the academy had theological, ecclesiastical-historical, and ecclesiastical-practical departments.
Activities of some of the academy’s sub-faculties (those of Holy Scripture and the Old Testament, Hebrew and Biblical Archeology, and Biblical History) in one way or another dealt with Hebrew and ancient Jewish history; and Hebrew was taught as an elective. Much of the research produced by Kiev Theological Academy personnel, and many of the students’ essays, were devoted to Jewish subjects. At the same time, the religious authorities of the Russian Empire repeatedly sought to use the authority of the Kiev Theological Academy to carry out official antisemitic policy. The Kiev Theological Academy was closed in April 1919 upon the establishment of Soviet power in Kiev (and briefly renewed activities in August-December of that year under the Denikin regime).
- Access points: locations:
- Kiev
- Access points: persons/families:
- Glagolev, A. A.
- Ivanitskii, V. F.
- Rybinskii, V. P.
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes three inventories systematised according to the structural-chronological principle (part of op. 1 – service records of academy staff and personal files of students – is arranged alphabetically).
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
