Since the Christianisation of the Slavs in the 9th and 10th centuries, apocryphal and midrashic narratives, themes, and topoi continuously made their way through various channels, literary, iconographic, and oral, into the intellectual universe of Orthodox Christianity, with Hebrew, Greek, and Slavonic being the main vehicles of dissemination and transfusion. The aim of the seminar is to explore some of these venues of cross-cultural and inter-faith transmission, both direct and indirect, examining the problematics of the social contexts, and evaluating their impact of some of these key texts and artefacts in an historical perspective, across languages and religions in the Byzantine Commonwealth.
The lecture starts at April 17, 2014 and is held weekly during the summer semester.
17.4.2014 | |
18:00 - 20:00 | Between combat myths and liturgy: the apocryphal "Homily of (Saint) John Chrysostom on how (the Archangel Michael) defeated Santail, Bless the Lord" Florentina Badalanova Geller |
24.4.2014 | |
18:00 - 20:00 | The apocryphal "Homily of (Saint) John Chrysostom on how (the Archangel Michael) defeated Santail, Bless the Lord": intertextual encounters in "Slavia Orthodoxa" Florentina Badalanova Geller |
8.5.2014 | |
18:00 - 20:00 | The Slavonic excerpt of Africanus and the extant fragments of his Chronography (Africanus and Eusebius from Cesarea; Africanus and George Synkellos) Anna Totomanova |
15.5.2014 | |
18:00 - 20:00 | The beginnings of the Jewish presence in Russia Moshe Taube |
22.5.2014 | |
18:00 - 20:00 | Muscovite Russia, the Great Duchy of Lithuania and the Jews Moshe Taube |
5.6.2014 | |
18:00 - 20:00 | The Novgorod and Moscow heresy of the Judaizers Moshe Taube |
12.6.2014 | |
18:00 - 20:00 | Das früheste datierte Buch der Slavia Orthodoxa: der Novgoroder Psalter auf Wax-Täfelchen aus dem ersten Viertel des 11. Jahrhunderts Marina Bobrik-Froemke |
19.6.2014 | |
18:00 - 20:00 | "Secretum Secretorum" Moshe Taube |
26.6.2014 | |
18:00 - 20:00 | Problems of the Slavonic Translation (Reception in mediaeval Bulgaria and Rus') of the Hamartolus Chronicle Dimiter Peev |
3.7.2014 | |
18:00 - 20:00 | The Tradition of Chronographs in Mediaeval "Slavia Orthodoxa" (based on Archvski Chronograph and Ellinski Letopisets Ist Recension) Dimiter Peev |
10.7.2014 | |
18:00 - 20:00 | From the "Historical" to the "Interpretative Paleja", or: the Jewish Bible from Greek to Slavonic Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis |
17.7.2014 | |
18:00 - 20:00 | The Ladder of Jacob Dieter Fahl Sabine Fahl |