Симеоновият "Златоструй" - пътят към истината
Simeon's 'Zlatostruj' - the way to the truth

Author(s): Dimitar Kenanov
Subject(s): History, Cultural history, History of ideas, Local History / Microhistory, Middle Ages, Theology and Religion, 6th to 12th Centuries, History of Religion
Published by: Издателска къща "Гутенберг"
Keywords: John Chrysostom; Tsar Simeon; Tsar Simeon the Great; Monastery of Annunciation in Suprasl; Suprasl; translation;
Summary/Abstract: This study summarises the author's way of finding the initial contents of the famous translated anthology of homilies by and excerpts from John Chrysostom. It was compiled by educated Bulgarian ruler, Tsar Simeon the Great (893-927) and was translated in the 9th century, after 893. The exceedingly apt title of 'Zlatostruj' (literary 'Golden Stream') is a symbolic expression of the blessed word of Chrysostom and the book surely has the objective to transform the unenlightened Bulgarian people by means of persuasion, not by force, as it was until 893. The initial translation features 45 homilies. This thesis is confirmed by two Vilnius copies of the 'Zlatostruj' from the Monastery of the Annunciation in Suprasl, currently located at the library of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences in Vilnius, Lithuania.

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