Metadata: Dissertations of Students of the Kiev Theological Academy
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Manuscript Institute of the V. I. Vernads’kyi National Library of Ukraine
- Holding institution (official language):
- Інститут рукопису Національної бібліотеки України ім. В.І. Вернадського
- Postal address:
- Building number 2, 62 Vladimirskaya street, 3rd floor, k.307; 4th floor, k. 403, Kiev 03039, Ukraine
- Phone number:
- 380 (44) 288-1418
- Web address:
- http://www.nbuv.gov.ua/node/1
- Email:
- irnbuv@gmail.com
- Reference number:
- F. 304
- Title:
- Dissertations of Students of the Kiev Theological Academy
- Title (official language):
- Диссертации студентов Киевской духовной академии
- Creator/accumulator:
- Kiev Theological Academy
- Date(s):
- 1829/1917
- Language:
- Russian
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Hebrew
- Latin
- German
- French
- Extent:
- 2,128 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- The fonds includes dissertations and term papers written by Kiev Theological Academy students; many of these are devoted to issues of the history of the Bible, ancient Jewish history, and Jewish-Christian relations. Subjects touched upon include the laws of Moses; the kingdom of David; David’s Book of Psalms; the proverbs of Solomon; the Book of Ecclesiastes; relations between Judea and Israel; commentaries on the Book of Ruth; the fate of the ten lost tribes after the Assyrian captivity; the history of the Maccabees and their significance in the history of the Jewish people; a survey of Biblical prophecies; jurisprudence and punishment among the ancient Jews; the Great Sanhedrin; Jewish customs and traditions; Jewish liturgical rituals; Jewish holidays; the status of women among the ancient Jews; the Pharisees and Sadducees; attestations of the Talmud and midrashim on Biblical canon; reasons for Jews’ non-acceptance of Christian doctrine; the “heresy of the Judaisers” in Rus’; etc. The dissertations include a scholarly apparatus (citations of sources and bibliographies), and are accompanied by evaluations by Academy teachers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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This was established on the basis of the reorganised Kiev-Mogila Academy, which 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 monitored 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, the academy had theological, ecclesiastical-historical, and ecclesiastical-practical departments. (Subsequently the charter underwent numerous revisions.) Activities of some of the academy’s sub-faculties (those of Holy Scripture and the Old Testament, Hebrew and Biblical Archaeology, 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 anti-Semitic policy. The Kiev Theological Academy was closed in April 1919 upon the establishment of Soviet power in Kiev. (It briefly renewed activities in August-December of that year under the Denikin regime.) See also the description of f. 160 (the Kiev Theological Academy) of this archive.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds' inventory and card file are systematised chronologically (with certain exceptions).
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary