СЛО­ВО О МА­КА­ВЕ­ЈИ­МА ГРИГОРИЈА БОГОСЛОВА У ПРЕРАДИ ГАВРИЛА ТРОЈИЧАНИНА
GREGORY NAZIANZEN’S ORA­TION IN COM­MEN­DA­TION OF THE MAC­CA­BE­ES IN THE REDACTION OF GAVRILO TROJIČANIN

Summary/Abstract: Gregory Nazianzen, a 4th-century Church Father, is the author of forty-five well composed orations. One of them is dedicated to the memory of the martyrdom of the priest Eleazar, seven brothers and their mother. They lived in times of The Maccabean Revolt (2nd century BC) and information about them exists in The Se­cond Bo­ok of the Mac­ca­be­es and The Fo­urth Bo­ok of the Mac­ca­be­es. Although their martyrdom had taken place before Christ, Christians accepted them as witnesses of the faith and venerated them. Gregory’s Ora­tion in Com­men­da­tion of the Mac­ca­be­es was very popular in Byzantium and it used to be rewritten in numerous copies. Nonetheless, the oldest Slavonic translations of the Gregory’s Ora­ti­ons do not include this text. On the other hand, in the Serbian medieval written tradition there exist manuscripts which contain Gregory’s Ora­tion in Com­men­da­tion of the Mac­ca­be­es. One of them is the manuscript from the Dečani monastery No. 92 from 1351. In the manuscript from the Orahovica monastery (The Museum of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Radoslav Grujić’s Collection, call number З I 59, pp. 150a‒152a), one can find a Serbian Slavonic version of this text from the beginning of the 17th century. The scribe was Gavrilo Trojičanin. Although he does not mention anything about the rewriting process, the comparison of his text with the Greek original and an older Serbian Slavonic translation shows that the scribe had very a flexible approach to the original text. He changed some details in it, he edited out the considerable part of it, and he added information from some other sources. It is certain that Gavrilo Trojičanin was acquainted with The Syna­xa­ri­on of Con­stan­ti­no­ple. At the end of the paper, there is an edition of the Serbian Slavonic text.

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