Quotations from St. Gregory the Great’s Gospel Homilies («Besedy») in Merilo Pravednoye («The Just Measure»)
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Цитаты из Бесед Григория Великого на Евангелие в Мериле Праведном и его литературном окружении
Quotations from St. Gregory the Great’s Gospel Homilies («Besedy») in Merilo Pravednoye («The Just Measure») and Its Literary Environment

Author(s): Konstantin V. Vershinin
Subject(s): Theology and Religion
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Slovanský ústav and Euroslavica
Keywords: Czech Church Slavonic translations; St. Gregory the Great; Old Russian literature; Merilo Pravednoye;

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses two already known and several newly revealed quotations from Czech Church Slavonic translation of St. Gregory the Great’s Gospel Homilies in Russian literary documents of the late XIII century: Merilo Pravednoe (“The Just Measure”), more precisely, its non-borrowed articles, and the Letter of Yakov Chernorizets (Jacob the Monk); and also one small fragment in Pravilo Chernoriztsem (“The Canon for Monks”). These quotations are among the earliest witnesses of the said translation and few known cases of its quotation in original Slavic literature. Besides, they present an interesting example of enriching the Slavic literature with rare (for it) biblical quotations and permit (along with other patristic quotations) to attribute a series Eastern Slavic texts to the same literary centre.

  • Issue Year: LXXXIV/2015
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 402-408
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Russian