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Apokryficzne Proroctwo o Chrystusie w pogańskiej świątyni boga Apollona i jego znaczenie dla badań nad związkami literatury ruskiej z Bałkanami

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Stradomski J.

Latopisy Akademii Supraskiej

2019

vol. Вѣнецъ хваленїѧ. Studia ofiarowane profesorowi Aleksandrowi Naumowowi na jubileusz 70-lecia

issue 10

85-100

The “Tale Afroditian” is one of the most popular Christian Biblical apocrypha in the Byzantine-Slavic literature. In the Medieval Cyrillic manuscripts, it is accompanied by a brief text entitled “Prophecy About Christ in the Pagan Temple of Apollo.” There are assumptions that both texts have a common origin, even though the Greek text of the “Prophecy” has not been found to date. Thanks to the analysis of several copies of the “Prophecy”, it is possible to reconstruct the common history of both apocrypha in the Church-Slavonic literature, which once again confirms durable relations of the literature of the former Ruthenia with the Balkans. Copies of both apocrypha from the handwritten “Bonarówka Code” are very helpful in re-tracing some unclear moments in the textology of the “Tale of Afroditian” and the “Prophecy About Christ”.

The Motif of the Angel(s) of Death in Islamic Foundational Sources as an Element of Cultural Diffusion

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Prochwicz-Studnicka B., Mrozek A.

Verbum Vitae

2021

vol. 39

issue 4

1233-1261

The article harks back to the publication entitled “The Motif of the Angel(s) of Death in Islamic Foundational Sources” (VV 38/2 [2020]), which was devoted to the analysis of the eponymous theme in the foundational sources of Islam: the Quran and the sunna of the Prophet Muhammad. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the motif of angel(s) may have been borrowed from two monotheistic traditions that came before. The verification of the thesis that the motif of the angel(s) of death underwent diffusion was carried out in several steps. First, the motif was identified in the textual traditions of Judaism and early Christianity (i.e. sets of texts that were known and, in all likelihood, widespread in the Middle East during the formative period of Islam). As a result of the analysis, most of the themes recognised in the foundational texts of Islam were found. The next step was to identify possible routes of their transmission and percolation into the Islamic tradition and to determine the “ideological demand” for the motif of the angel(s) of death in the burgeoning Islam. Although Jewish and Christian imagery and beliefs about angels are an important (if not the primary) source of influence on Muslim angelology, there was most likely a two-way interaction between the monotheistic traditions, albeit to a limited extent.

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Apokryficzne Proroctwo o Chrystusie w pogańskiej świątyni boga Apollona i jego znaczenie dla badań nad związkami literatury ruskiej z Bałkanami

The Motif of the Angel(s) of Death in Islamic Foundational Sources as an Element of Cultural Diffusion