РАННЕХРИСТИАНСКИЕ ТОЛКОВАНИЯ ВОСКРЕШЕНИЯ ЛАЗАРЯ
EARLY CHRISTIAN INTERPRETATIONS OF THE RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS

Summary/Abstract: This article investigates the interpretation of the raising of Lazarus in early Christian literature. The author presents new data taken from the writings of St. Athanasius and other untranslated theological sources by S. Cyrill of Jerusalem, Pseudo-Clement, Didymus the Blind. The research focuses on the interpretation of the motif of the raising of Lazarus in Byzantine literature of the 2d–4th centuries. The research question concerns the writings of the authors of the given period that contain the interpretation of this evangelic motif. The author comes to the conclusion that the raising of Lazarus is an important theme in the writings of early Christian theologists. In Pseudo- Clement’s writings the name of Lazarus is nothing but mentioned for making the work more plausible, while St. Athanasius deeply reflects over the 11th chapter of the Gospel of John, seeking for anti-arian arguments in it.

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