The Bible in Slavic Tradition

This volume contains selected papers from an international conference held in 2009 in Varna, Bulgaria. The papers represent major trends and developments in current research on the medieval Slavonic biblical tradition, primarily in comparison with Greek and Hebrew texts. The volume covers the translation of the canonical, apocryphal and pseudepigraphical books of the Old and New Testaments and its development over the ninth to sixteenth centuries. Another focus is on issues relating to Cyril and Methodius, the creators of the first Slavonic alphabet in the ninth century and the first translators of biblical books into Slavonic. The analytical approach in the volume is interdisciplinary, applying methodologies from textual criticism, philology, cultural and political history, and theology. It should be of value to Slavists, Hebraists and Byzantinists.

Alexander Kulik, Ph.D. (2000), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department of German, Russian and East European Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His publication include Retroverting Slavonic Pseudepigrapha (SBL /Brill, 2004/2005), 3 Baruch (Walter de Gruyter, 2009), Biblical Pseudepigrapha in Slavonic Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2015; with S. Minov), and History of the Jews in Russia: From Antiquity to Early Modern Period (Zalman Shazar / Gesharim, 2010).

Catherine Mary MacRobert, D.Phil. (1981), is University Lecturer in Russian Philology and Comparative Slavonic Philology at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the textual and linguistic history of the Psalter in Church Slavonic translation.

Svetlina Nikolova, Ph.D. (1970), Sofia St. Kliment of Ohrid University, is Professor of Cyrillo-Methodian Studies (textual criticism, Slavonic palaeography, medieval manuscripts, literature, language, and Biblical translations into Slavonic) at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She has published monographs, translations and more than 250 scholarly articles in European and North American venues.

Moshe Taube, Ph.D. (Paris-Sorbonne 1979) is Professor of Linguistics, holding the Saveli and Tamara Grinberg Chair in Russian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on Medieval Slavic translations from Hebrew, as well as on Modern Yiddish syntax.

Cynthia M. Vakareliyska (Ph.D. Harvard University 1990) is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Oregon. Her publications include The Curzon Gospel. Vol I: An Annotated Edition, Vol. II: A Linguistic and Textual Analysis (Oxford University Press 2008).