Bible in Slavic Tradition

Alexander Kulik, Ph.D. (2000), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department of German, Russian and East European Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His publication include Retroverting Slavonic Pseudepigrapha (SBL /Brill, 2004/2005), 3 Baruch (Walter de Gruyter, 2009), Biblical Pseudepigrapha in Slavonic Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2015; with S. Minov), and History of the Jews in Russia: From Antiquity to Early Modern Period (Zalman Shazar / Gesharim, 2010).Catherine Mary MacRobert, D.Phil. (1981), is University Lecturer in Russian Philology and Comparative Slavonic Philology at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the textual and linguistic history of the Psalter in Church Slavonic translation. Svetlina Nikolova, Ph.D. (1970), Sofia St. Kliment of Ohrid University, is Professor of Cyrillo-Methodian Studies (textual criticism, Slavonic palaeography, medieval manuscripts, literature, language, and Biblical translations into Slavonic) at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She has published monographs, translations and more than 250 scholarly articles in European and North American venues. Moshe Taube, Ph.D. (Paris-Sorbonne 1979) is Professor of Linguistics, holding the Saveli and Tamara Grinberg Chair in Russian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on Medieval Slavic translations from Hebrew, as well as on Modern Yiddish syntax. Cynthia M. Vakareliyska (Ph.D. Harvard University 1990) is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Oregon. Her publications include The Curzon Gospel. Vol I: An Annotated Edition, Vol. II: A Linguistic and Textual Analysis (Oxford University Press 2008).

"The production values of the book are excellent. The text, photographs, illustrations, tables, diagrams (stemmata), charts, lists of abbreviations, detailed endnotes, and lengthy bibliographies are clearly and helpfully presented. The editors and publisher deserve praise for producing a volume that accurately and legibly presents large amounts of material in Hebrew, classical and Byzantine Greek, Slavonic (Glagolitic and Cyrillic), Latin, and Arabic, frequently synoptically line by line." --Paul Hollingsworth, Vienna, Virginia, Slavic Review, Cambridge University Press, 792-794 pp.

• PrefaceSLAVONIC BIBLEHebrew Bible or Septuagint: Later Preferences and the Stance of Nascent Christianity, Serge RuzerPreliminary Remarks on the Old Church Slavonic Psalterium, Demetrii Sinaitici, Heinz Miklas, Melanie Gau, and Dana HürnerThe Place of Dimitri’s Psalter (MS Sinai Slav 3N) in the Early Transmission of the Church Slavonic Psalter, Catherine Mary MacRobertThe Headings in South Slavonic Copies of the Book of Exodus, Veselka ZhelyazkovaThe Importance of the Slavonic Version of the Book of the Prophet Jeremian to the Study of Its Original Structure in the Old Testament, Tatyana MostrovaThe Three Slavonic Translations of the Greek Catena on Job. With an Appendix on the Author of the First Prologue to the First Translation: Polychronius or Photius?, Francis J. ThomsonThe Book of Proverbs in Vilnius 262, Moshe TaubeSophia, the Wisdom of God. According to Proverbs 9:1–11 in the Slavic Tradition of Word and Image, Iskra Hristova-ShomovaBiblical Quotations in the Late South Slavonic Translation of Catena B2 with Commentaries on the Song of Songs, Margaret DimitrovaThe Composition and Structure of the Book of Ben Sira in the Oldest Slavonic Translation, Svetlina NikolovaDistinguishing Features of the Dobrejšo Gospel’s Book of Matthew, Cynthia M. VakareliyskaThe Banica, Dobrejšo and Curzon Gospels in Light of the Greek Text, Alberto AlbertiThe Names of the Books from the Biblical Corpus in Old Bulgarian Literature, Tatyana IlievaMuslim Parallels to Slavonic Apocryphal Literature: the Case of the Narration of How God Created Adam, Sergey MinovMelchizedek among Russian Saints. The History of Melchizedek between Jews and Slavs, Christfried BöttrichCYRILLO-METHODIAN TRADITIONSThe Extent of the Works of St. Methodius: Syntactic Observations, Johannes ReinhartUse of the Words ÞÄÝH, ÆHÄÎÂÅ, ÅÂÐÝH in the Long Vita of Constantine-Cyril the Philosopher, Maya IvanovaTowards the Critical Edition of the Vita Constantini, Mario CapaldoTowards a Critical Edition of the Vita Constantini: The South Slavonic Tradition, the Russian Copies of the Menologium for February and the Russian Miscellanies, Cristiano DiddiOn the ‘Second’ Service for St. Cyril the Philosopher, Boyka MirchevaCanonical and Apocryphal Texts from the Bible in Balkan Calendrical Miscellanies (Based on Material from Bibliotheca Hagiographica Balcano-Slavica), Klimentina IvanovaBiblical Quotations in the Oration for the Nativity of the Theotokos by St. John Damascene in Two Middle Bulgarian Translations, Tsvetomira DanovaKing David and Royal Penance in Medieval Bulgaria During the Ninth and Tenth Centuries, Desislava NaydenovaConvocato omni regno: The Council of 893 and its “Reflections” in Contemporary Historiography, Angel NikolovIndex