ЈЕСТИРА У СТАРОЈ СРПСКОЈ КЊИЖЕВНОСТИ
ESTHER IN OLD SERBIAN LITERATURE

Summary/Abstract: The paper points to topoi in the Old Serbian Literature featuring the three books of the Old Testament with female protagonists, although these books were not used during religious services. Their emergence is associated with the change of cultural-historic circumstances, with the actual manner of transposing texts on Esther and Judith yet to be determined. The original text might have been used in differrent context by Tsamblak to describe Milutin’s anger and Stefan’s hope of being able to calm it down the way Esther did, and by Constantine the Philosopher as a premonition of hardship through dreams. Moreover, in the works of Constantine the Philosopher and the Orator from Smederevo their is a direct link between Esther and Serbian heroines from troublesome periods, who become a role model by virtue of their noble sacrifice.

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