Две кратки редакции на чина на Свето Богоявление
Two short redactions on the Blessing of the Waters on the Eve of Epiphany

Author(s): Hristina Toncheva
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History, Cultural history, Comparative history, History of ideas, Middle Ages, Modern Age, Theology and Religion, Comparative Studies of Religion, 6th to 12th Centuries, 15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, Sociology of Religion, History of Religion
Published by: Издателска къща "Гутенберг"
Keywords: epiphany; religion; religious texts; Christianity; Christianity and culture; History; Bulgarian history; Balkan history; History of religion;
Summary/Abstract: The Old Bulgarian Blessing of the Waters on the Eve of Epiphany from X-XI centuries is the earliest Slavic copy of that work, giving an account of the very old routine of the Holy Sanctification of the Water, which is performed nowadays on the eve of Epiphany (January 6 - new stile). During the examination of the later Slavic copies of this Convention from the XV-XVII centuries, were discovered two unknown short redactions - one of them from the XVth c. - in Russia, Serbian, and Bulgarian Books of divine services and Prayer-books, and the other - from the year 1782 (in a Church Slavic prayer-book from Hilandar monastery, in Mount Athos). In the article, for the first time, is published the text of the short redaction of the Blessing of the Water on the Eve of Epiphany, from the above mentioned XVIIIth c. Preayer-book.

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