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Volume 4 Number Vol 4 (2014) Year 2027

30 articles in this issue 

Zofia Brzozowska

The idea of Sophia – the personified Wisdom of God served as a symbol of independence and identity of the republic in the political culture of Novgorod the Great. In Old Russian chronicles and other narrative sources which can be connected with Novgorod, ... see more

Pags. 13 - 26  

Martina Chromá

Paper deals with the lexical analysis of the Old Church Slavonic version of the Apocryphal Questions of Bartholomew, a literary monument written most likely in Greek in the 3rd century. The analysis shows that the Slavonic version contains not only lexica... see more

Pags. 27 - 34  

Ewelina Drzewiecka

The paper is devoted to the author’s concept of modern apocrypha in the context of the two main tendencies of (Post)modernity: unmasking and paraphrasing. On the basis of the literary paraphrases of the Evangelical story, found in the Bulgarian (Post)Mode... see more

Pags. 35 - 48  

Zbigniew Izydorczyk

The Bohemian Redaction of the Evangelium Nicodemi is a hybrid form of the apocryphon, combining elements of Latin traditions A and B. It circulated in central and eastern Europe, and was used as a source for late medieval translations into Byelorussian, C... see more

Pags. 49 - 64  

Karolina Krzeszewska; Katarzyna Gucio

The article attempts to extract textual and extratextual planes on which representatives of fauna made their mark in the folklore of the South Slavs, mainly Bulgarians; in their oral literature, rituals, and beliefs, juxtaposed with selected Apocrypha, pr... see more

Pags. 65 - 83  

Anissava Miltenova

The paper presents an unstudied text with the name of the Apostle Andrew in the miscellany of 15th c., now Muz.10272, Rashka orthography. The text (with traces of archaic archetype) is a unique copy of the compilation. The history of the manuscript is ver... see more

Pags. 85 - 94  

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The article aims to present and analyze those passages of the Hexameron (Šestodnev) in which ‘heretics’, ‘Manichaeans’, ‘pagans’ or ‘pagan Slavs’ are mentioned. The fragments are compared with their Greek counterparts (as long as these exist); the Old Bul... see more

Pags. 95 - 123  

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The paper discusses the differences between Eastern and Western Christians during the Middle Ages through the prism of the lists of ritual deviations and bad habits of the ‘Latin heretics’, which were circulated in Byzantium in the second half of the 12th... see more

Pags. 125 - 139  

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The New Testament apocryphon Didascalia Domini is one of the least known. Its original was written in Greek, according to François Nau, at the end of the 7th century. Relatively early it was translated into Old Church Slavonic. At present five copies of t... see more

Pags. 141 - 160  

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Apocryphal stories of Adam related to the subjects of the Paradise lost, Adam’s repentance and expulsion from Eden, life of Adam and Eve after the expulsion, the manuscript that Adam gave to Satan, the Holy Cross story – all these subjects can be called t... see more

Pags. 161 - 170  

Malgorzata Skowronek; Katarzyna Gucio

The article analyses the story of the prophet-king Melchizedek (mentioned in Gen 14,17– 20, Ps 110,4 and three passages in Heb: 5,6–10, 6,20, 7,1–17), recorded in Slavonic historical texts: the first and second translation of Palaea Historica, and the fir... see more

Pags. 171 - 191  

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The apocryphal Apocalypse of St. Paul the Apostlebelongs to the group of early-Christian texts which exerted significant impact on people’s perceptionof the nether world and the Last Judgment. In the Middle Ages, the text was known in the area ofwestern a... see more

Pags. 193 - 207  

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This paper deals with Apocryphas of the nativity cycle, particularly motives of the Three Wise Men arriving, which includes Afroditian’s legend as well, in cultural context of Transcarpatia, which is a border area between Slavia latina and Slavia byzantin... see more

Pags. 209 - 217  

Grazyna Szwat-Gylybowa; Piotr Szymczak

The article engages with the philosophical and theological notion of theodicy as formulated by Kalin Yanakiev in ????? ????? ?????????? (A Debate on Theodicy), an essay which appeared in Yanakiev’s book ?????????? ????? ????? ???????? ? ????????? (Philoso... see more

Pags. 219 - 231  

Jan Mikolaj Wolski

This paper discusses the use of the names of heresies: bogomilism, messalianism and the heresy of autoproscoptae in 14th century Bulgarian sources. The author underlines that the names of bogomilism and messalianism do not always refer to dualism. Two wid... see more

Pags. 233 - 241  

Zofia Rzeznicka, Maciej Kokoszko, Krzysztof Jagusiak

The present study discusses the role of salt-cured meat in dietetics, medicine and gastronomy demonstrated mainly in ancient and Byzantine medical (Galen, Oribasius, Aetius of Amida, Anthimus, Alexander of Tralles and Paul of Aegina) and agronomic (Cato, ... see more

Pags. 245 - 259  

Mariyana Tsibranska-Kostova

It is well known that the major anti-heretic written source from the Second Bulgarian Empire is the Tsar Boril’s Synodicon, proved to have been compiled to serve the Synod against the Bogomils, convened in Tarnovo in 1211. However, the subsequent century ... see more

Pags. 261 - 275  

Szymon Wierzbinski

The paper examines the Frankish presence in Byzantium during 11th century. It was stressed that the mentioned period was the time of a great influx of westerners to the East. At first, most of them visited Constantinople as pilgrims during return journey ... see more

Pags. 277 - 288