On the hypothesis of a (second) Greek exemplar in the translation process to Old Church Slavonic of the Miracula Theclae
On the hypothesis of a (second) Greek exemplar in the translation process to Old Church Slavonic of the Miracula Theclae

Summary/Abstract: This article serves as the introductory part to the first text-critical analyses of the three Miracula Theclae (MT1–3) in their Old Church Slavonic translation. The current investigation is based on a hypothesis, formulated and confirmed on evaluating the textual transmission of the Passio Theclae (PT): since the MT accompany the PT in this translation process, the question arises whether the same hypothesis can be proposed for the textual transmission of the MT as well. According to this hypothesis, the PT is translated once into Old Church Slavonic, soon after which it is revised again with the help of the Greek source text material. I deliberately present this analysis separately from the main text-critical analyses of these texts, since it focuses on non-stemmatologically grounded arguments for the evaluation of the textual transmission. In other words, the Slavic transmission is solely looked at from the perspective of and its relation towards the Greek source text material. The two biggest challenges in this analysis are: 1) the lack of extant South Slavic text witnesses preserving the redacted version of the translation of the PT and the MT; and 2) the lack of text witnesses preserving MT2 in the original version of the translation. My carefully formulated conclusion consists of a confirmation of the abovementioned hypothesis for all the MT, which includes MT2, thus, suggesting the probable appearance of all the MT in both versions of the translation, although no direct or concrete textual evidence can be presented for this thesis.

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