Slavonic Texts of Hard Fate: the Prophecy of Solomon and Some Others

“Prophecy of Solomon” is a long medieval compilation known only in Slavonic but containing some earlier material.

Pace the authors of the recent critical edition and the Russian “consensus” (which consider the work as Russian genuine), I argue for the South Slavic origin of the translation from Greek.

Some early (Jewish and Christian) sources of the compilation are considered and the problem of “Made in Russia” (Thomson) is addressed once more.