(with I. Gritsevskaya, N. Pokhilko) An Anonymous Slavonic Sermon under the Name of Apostle Peter and Its Pseudepigraphic Sources

by Basil Lourié и Natalia (Наталья) Pokhilko (Похилько)
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An anonymous Slavonic sermon is published for the first time according to the unique Russian manuscript of the 17th cent. going back to a Western (“Lithuanian”) Russian protograph. The text quotes a rare recension of the Apocalypse of Paul known only in Slavonic and only in the indirect tradition (being its second witness), refers to the Epistle of Christ Descended from the Heaven, and, most probably, refers to and paraphrases some recension of the so-called Arabic Apocalypse of Peter (not to be confounded with CANT 317!), which is a not earlier than the ninth-century historical apocalypse. The sermon, moreover, could probably shed some light on an almost unknown Byzantine synod dealing with the impermissibility of oath as a part of Church rites. The sermon is, most likely, a middle Byzantine work. Appendix 2 contains an editio princeps of another anonymous sermon known in Slavonic only (within a Slavonic collection of Pseudo-Chrysostomica), Sermon on the Componction of Soul.
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