ЈУНАЦ КОЈИ БОДЕ У ЗАКОНОПРАВИЛУ СВЕТОГА САВЕ
GORING OX IN THE NOMOCANON OF SAINT SAVA

Summary/Abstract: Famous legislation concerning goring ox attracted considerable interest of legal historians and comparatists. In the first part of the article the author presents ancient Near Eastern provisons of the Laws of Eshnunna, the Code of Hammurabi and the Moses’ legislation in their interrelationship. The singularity of the biblical legislation is stressed particularly under two points: 1) the ox must be stoned to death 2) its flesh may not be consumed. The same set of rules exists also in the Zakonopravilo of Saint Sava – chapter 48 paragraph 21. These rules are taken over from the Old Testament. Compared to the biblical text there is a small but very important modification in the Ilovica transcript, the oldest transcript preserved: the ox has to be stoned but its flesh may be eaten. The Ilovica transcript (ca. 1262) is not only chronologically nearest to Sava’s autograph. It is probably also textually closest to it. The same wording can be found in the Sarajevo transcript (ca. 1371) and in the Belgrade transcript (ca. 1470). After examining some relevant historical and social circumstances, author came to the final, highly hypothetical conclusion that the mistake was present already in the lost original.

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