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The article engages with the philosophical and theological notion of theodicy as formulated by Kalin Yanakiev in Дебат върху теодицеята (A Debate on Theodicy), an essay which appeared
in Yanakiev’s book Философски опити върху самотата и надеждата (Philosophical Essays on
Solitude and Hope,2008). The article uses the category of apocryphalness to analyse the ideas sparked off in Yanakiev’s work by...
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 byzantina. The datas for study were two cyrillic manuscripts from Ugľa monastery from the 17th century.
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)Modern literary, there is shown a hermeneutic
passage from “apocrypha as a literary mystification” (“literary apocrypha”), i.e. a concept often
applied...
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, Czech, and possibly Polish. The
Byelorussian translation closely follows the idiosyncratic Latin text preserved in Gdańsk, Biblioteka
Polskiej...
Satan’s interference in the events described in the first chapters of the book of Genesis and in the life of the protoplasts is not mentioned at all in the biblical text. This happens, however, in pseudo-canonical texts. The article is a short survey on the apocryphal accounts that mention Satan and their influence on art. The main focus is put on the inclusion of the image of Satan behind Cain’s...
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