The Bible in Slavic Tradition

Preface  SLAVONIC BIBLE  Hebrew Bible or Septuagint: Later Preferences and the Stance of Nascent Christianity, Serge Ruzer  Preliminary Remarks on the Old Church Slavonic Psalterium, Demetrii Sinaitici, Heinz Miklas, Melanie Gau, and Dana Hürner  The Place of Dimitri’s Psalter (MS Sinai Slav 3N) in the Early Transmission of the Church Slavonic Psalter, Catherine Mary MacRobert  The Headings in South Slavonic Copies of the Book of Exodus, Veselka Zhelyazkova  The Importance of the Slavonic Version of the Book of the Prophet Jeremian to the Study of Its Original Structure in the Old Testament, Tatyana Mostrova  The 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. Thomson  The Book of Proverbs in Vilnius 262, Moshe Taube  Sophia, the Wisdom of God. According to Proverbs 9:1–11 in the Slavic Tradition of Word and Image, Iskra Hristova-Shomova  Biblical Quotations in the Late South Slavonic Translation of Catena B2 with Commentaries on the Song of Songs, Margaret Dimitrova  The Composition and Structure of the Book of Ben Sira in the Oldest Slavonic Translation, Svetlina Nikolova  Distinguishing Features of the Dobrejšo Gospel’s Book of Matthew, Cynthia M. Vakareliyska  The Banica, Dobrejšo and Curzon Gospels in Light of the Greek Text, Alberto Alberti  The Names of the Books from the Biblical Corpus in Old Bulgarian Literature, Tatyana Ilieva  Muslim Parallels to Slavonic Apocryphal Literature: the Case of the Narration of How God Created Adam, Sergey Minov  Melchizedek among Russian Saints. The History of Melchizedek between Jews and Slavs, Christfried Böttrich  CYRILLO-METHODIAN TRADITIONS  The Extent of the Works of St. Methodius: Syntactic Observations, Johannes Reinhart  Use of the Words ЮДѢИ, ЖИДОВЄ, ЄВРѢИ in the Long Vita of Constantine-Cyril the Philosopher, Maya Ivanova  Towards the Critical Edition of the Vita Constantini, Mario Capaldo  Towards a Critical Edition of the Vita Constantini: The South Slavonic Tradition, the Russian Copies of the Menologium for February and the Russian Miscellanies, Cristiano Diddi  On the ‘Second’ Service for St. Cyril the Philosopher, Boyka Mircheva  Canonical and Apocryphal Texts from the Bible in Balkan Calendrical Miscellanies (Based on Material from Bibliotheca Hagiographica Balcano-Slavica), Klimentina Ivanova  Biblical Quotations in the Oration for the Nativity of the Theotokos by St. John Damascene in Two Middle Bulgarian Translations, Tsvetomira Danova  King David and Royal Penance in Medieval Bulgaria During the Ninth and Tenth Centuries, Desislava Naydenova  Convocato omni regno: The Council of 893 and its “Reflections” in Contemporary Historiography, Angel Nikolov  Index