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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">patristic</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Библия и христианская древность</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Bible and Christian Antiquity</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2658−7815</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2713-1122</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Московская духовная академия</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.31802/BCA.2026.8.1.004</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">patristic-368</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ. Патристика</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>RESEARCHES. Patristics</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Историко-филологический анализ переписки Оригена и Юлия Африкана</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Historical and Philological Analysis of the Correspondence Between Origen and Julius Africanus</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0125-4924</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Евграфов</surname><given-names>Диакон Н.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Evgrafov</surname><given-names>Deacon N.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Диакон Никита Евграфов</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Deacon Nikita Evgrafov</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">senator94@mail.ru</email></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2026</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>13</day><month>06</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>8</volume><issue>1</issue><elocation-id>150–187</elocation-id><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Евграфов Д., 2026</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Евграфов Д.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Evgrafov D.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://www.patristic.ru/jour/article/view/368">https://www.patristic.ru/jour/article/view/368</self-uri><abstract><p>В публикации анализируется содержание переписки между двумя богословами поздней Античности — Оригеном и Юлием Африканом, научный интерес которых был направлен на изучение Священного Писания. Поскольку библейский канон ещё не был принят Церковью окончательно, Африкан в своём письме подвергает историю Сусанны критике и сомневается в богодухновенности самой истории. И хотя в ответ Ориген написал пространное письмо, его аргументы оказались не до конца убедительными. В силу скоротечности жизни переписка обоих оказалась весьма короткой (по одному письму от каждого). Поскольку любое письмо представляет собой отголосок тех проблем и вопросов, которые беспокоили его автора и современников, в статье применён историко-филологический метод исследования, чтобы вопросы Африкана и ответы Оригена были доступны пониманию современного читателя. Также даны небольшие биографические описания второстепенных лиц, упомянутые в переписке богословов. Начатая дискуссия между Оригеном и Африканом не была окончена, но её появление дало начало библеистике как науке.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The purpose of this article is to analyze the content of correspondence between two theologians of late Antiquity, Origen and Julius Africanus, whose scientific interest was focused on the study of Holy Scripture. Because the biblical canon has not yet been definitively accepted by the Church, in his letter Africanus criticizes the story of Susanna and doubts the inspiration of the story itself. And although Origen wrote a lengthy letter in response, his arguments were not completely convincing. Due to the transience of life, the correspondence of both turned out to be very short (one letter from each). Since any letter is an echo of the problems and questions that worried its author and his contemporaries, the article uses a historical and philological research method so that Africanus’ questions and Origen’s answers are accessible to the modern reader. Small biographical descriptions of minor figures mentioned in the theologians’ correspondence are also given. The discussion between Origen and Africanus was not over, but its appearance gave rise to biblical studies as a science.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>история Сусанны</kwd><kwd>Септуагинта</kwd><kwd>богодухновенность</kwd><kwd>каноничность</kwd><kwd>подлог</kwd><kwd>эпистолярный жанр</kwd><kwd>апологетика</kwd><kwd>игра слов</kwd><kwd>Филистион</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>story of Susanna</kwd><kwd>Septuagint</kwd><kwd>divine inspiration</kwd><kwd>canonicity</kwd><kwd>forgery</kwd><kwd>epistolary genre</kwd><kwd>apologetics</kwd><kwd>pun</kwd><kwd>Philistion</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Макаров А. И. Васс // ПЭ. 2004. Т. 7. С. 245.</mixed-citation><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Botvinnik M. N., Lur’e Ya. S., Tvorogov O. V. (eds.) 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