The Old Testament Apocrypha in the Slavonic Tradition (2011 DiTommaso, Böttrich), edited volume

The Old Testament Apocrypha in the Slavonic Tradition (2011) is a volume edited by Lorenzo DiTommaso and Christfried Böttrich.

Abstract

"Written by an international group of expert scholars, the essays in this volume are devoted to the topic of biblical apocrypha, particularly the "Old Testament Pseudepigrapha," within the compass of the Slavonic tradition. The authors examine ancient texts, such as 2 Enoch and the Apocalypse of Abraham , which have been preserved (sometimes uniquely) in Slavonic witnesses and versions, as well as apocryphal literature that was composed within the rich Slavonic tradition from the early Byzantine period onwards. The volume's focus is textual, historical, and literary. Many of its contributions present editions and commentaries of important texts, or discuss aspects pertaining to the manuscript evidence."--Publisher description.

"Der Sammelband vereint die Arbeiten einer internationalen Gruppe von Spezialisten, die sich mit de Literatur der sogenannten "Alttestamentlichen Apokryphen und Pseudepigraphen" befassen. Dabei geht es ausschließlich um solche Texte, die im slavischen Kulturkreis überliefert worden sind. Schriften wie 2Henoch oder die Apokalypse Abrahams haben allein in diesem Kontext überlebt; andere wurden bearbeitet oder sind völlig neu konzipiert worden. Die Autoren thematisieren Fragen der Textgeschichte und gehen historischen Bezügen sowie literarischen Strukturen nach. Unter den Beiträgen befinden sich Editionen und Kommentare, Studien zu einzelnen Regionen, Methodenfragen, Textgattungen oder spezifischen Motiven."--Publisher description (German).

Editions and translations

Published in Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2011 (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, 140).

Table of contents

• The Uniqueness and Importance of the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha / James H. Charlesworth

• The Sea of Tiberias: Between Apocryphal Literature and Oral Tradition / Florentina Badalanova Geller

• Die Geschichte Melchisedeks (HistMelch) im slavischen Kulturkreis / Christfried Böttrich

• Some Problems of Textology of Indexes of Prohibited Books / Irina M. Gritsevskaya

• Old Testament Apocrypha in the Serbian Manuscript tradition / Tomislav Jovanovic

• Church Slavonic Apocrypha and Slavic linguistics / Alexander Kulik

• Propitiatorium in the Apocalypse of Abraham / Basil Lourié

• Slavonic Erotapokriseis: Sources, Transmission, and Morphology of the Genre / Anissava Miltenova

• The Slavonic Apocryphon of Zorobabel / Liudmila Navtanovich

• The Heirs of the Enochic Lore: "Men of Faith" in 2 Enoch 35:2 and Sefer Hekhalot 48d:10 / Andrei A. Orlov

• The Sibylline Tradition in Medieval and Early Modern Slavic Culture / Michael Pesenson

• Slavonic Apocryphal Traditions in the Romanian Lands: Diffusion and Diffraction / Nicolae Roddy

• Die handschriftliche Uberlieferung der Apokalypse Abrahams / Aurelio de Santos Otero

• The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs in the Russian Tradition and the Contexts of Their Reception / Cornelia Soldat

• The Old Testament "Apocrypha" in Early Russian Drama / Marina Swoboda

• Zu einer Rohfassung der Polnaja Chronograficeskaja Paleja und zum Verhältnis zwischen den verschiedenen Paleja-Redaktionen / Evgenij G. Vodolazkin

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