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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...
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 lexical elements typical for the Preslav redaction, but also some archaic
figures. This leads to the conclusion, that the primal Old Church Slavonic translation...
The work is concentrated on the problem of war prisoners in the chronological period
of the existance of the so-called First Bulgarian state. The analysis is based predominantly on various
Byzantine and selected Latin and Bulgarian sources from the epoch. With some exceptions, mostly for
707/708, 754/755, 763/764 and 774, the notices are concentrated around the events of 811–815/816,
837/838;...
Great Mosque of Damascus was built between 705 and 715 by the Umayyad Caliph al-Walid
I. However, the origins of this building dates to the distant past. At first it was a location of an ancient
Aramaean temple dedicated to the god Hadad. With Hellenization the temple was dedicated to Zeus
and in the first century BC the Romans transformation it into the Temple of Jupiter Damascenus.
In 391 Emperor...
Nubia constituted the area in the Nile Valley in the present day Sudan, the area which
spread from the first cataract up to the place where the White Nile meets the Blue Nile. The area was
inhabited by the population using a common language – Old Nubian. In the second half of the sixth
century thanks to the missions send by the Byzantine Court, Nubia accepted Christianity as a state religion. Nubia...
This article discusses the relatively unknown poetry of Bessarion, the future Cardinal.
The author argues with a negative opinion of F. M. Pontani concerning the three epicedia on the
death of Theodora Comnena. The author analyses the composition, artistic means of expression and
intertextual links in order to revise the common opinion in the subject and to prove the presence
of literary values...
"Sophia’s banquet (Divine Wisdom’s banquet)" – this type of iconography is an illustration
of a specific passage of the ninth chapter of the Old Testament "Book of Proverbs: Wisdom hath built
herself a house" (Prov 9, 1–6). That text became widespread in Old Russian literature within liturgical
books containing passages of the Old Testament. Also the comment of Anastasius Sinaites...
Towards a glottometric analysis of the vocabulary of the Historical Palaea. The present study
is an attempt to apply statistical methods in investigating the vocabulary of Old Bulgarian on the
basis of lexical material from the Historical Palaea. Tables and charts are used to present a glotometric
characterization of the lexical material under study. A comparison is made with data from other Old...
The paper follows out the way of denomination and description of Sofia town in manuscripts
from different genre during the period of the 15th –17th centuries, namely: the original hagiographic
and hymnographic works of the men of letters from the 16th century Sofia literary school;
the bedrolls; some marginal notes. This type of sources is rich enough not only for shaping the image
of the town...
In a nutshell: 1. I believe that Ekloge Chronographias of George Syncellus and Chronographia
of Theophanes the Confessor should be treated as a single project, undertaken in turn by
two authors; 2. There are important stylistic differences between the two parts, noticeable in the
fragments, in which the authors deliver some editorial remarks or disclose their personal opinions;
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