Language:
German
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook (2020-2021)
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2021)
Keywords:
Bible Chronology
;
Early works to 1800
;
Chronology, Historical
;
Church history Early works to 1800 Chronology
Abstract:
The so-called Short Chronographic Paleya, compiled in the Novgorod area in the early 15th century, belongs to the Paleya literature, a genre long neglected because of a lack of text editions, and its complexity as well. This branch of the tradition links Old and New Testament history, para-biblical traditions and chronography from the creation of the world to the Byzantine emperor Romanos I. Lakapenos (10th century). For the first time, the Church Slavonic text of the Short Chronographic Paleya is now made accessible to scholars who are not Slavicists with a critical, parallel text edition (Church-Slavonic and German) with commentary and indexes, prepared by a Russian-German-Bulgarian team. The present article offers an overview of the contents from Jewish and Christian non-canonical, canonical and chronographic sources. An analysis of the methods of depicting time in the text shows that the compiler was an erudite computist who expected, along with his community, the end of the world within the coming decades.
DOI:
10.1515/9783110705454-007
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