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.

Program

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