A study of Biblical Citations in Medieval Slavic Documents

在这个项目中，我们对各种中世纪斯拉夫文献中的圣经语录进行了全面的分析，以考察它们的作者如何在他们的文学作品中解释和使用圣经。分析的重点是中世纪俄语编年史，如俄罗斯初级编年史《Povest‘vemennykh let》，(旧)教堂圣人的斯拉夫生活，圣徒西里尔和梅索迪厄斯的生活，以及俄罗斯圣人的生活，特别是圣人鲍里斯和格里布的生活。除了确定引用中使用的斯拉夫翻译的原文这一语言学任务外，我们还分析和系统化了各种文学措施，如缩写、合并和附加文本的不同部分，通过改变动词的语法数量和人称来取悦读者。这使我们能够展示每一部作品的特点和每一位作者的独特特征。此外，在我们的研究中，我们没有局限于福音和诗篇，通常的旧教会斯拉夫语正典，但我们也研究了相关的文本，如使徒书信和旧约。最后，在项目的最后一年，基于我们的研究结果，我们超越了对圣经引文的分析，探讨了旧教会斯拉夫福音和南斯拉夫圣徒的生活(圣徒西里尔和卫理公会的生活)对俄罗斯初级编年史《Povest‘vemennykh let》语言的影响。这个课题与我们将要在分析斯拉夫语言的书面语域这一更广泛的背景下进行的历史研究有关。

In this project, we have conducted a comprehensive analysis of biblical quotations occurring in a variety of medieval Slavic documents in order to examine how their authors interpreted and used the Bible in their literary works. The analysis was focused on medieval Russian chronicles, such as the Russian Primary Chronicle "Povest' vremennykh let", (Old) Church Slavonic lives of saints, The Lives of Saints Cyril and Methodius, and Russian lives of saints, in particular The Lives of Saints Boris and Gleb.In addition to the philological task of determining the originals of Slavic translations that were used in the citations, a goal usually pursued by researchers in Europe and America, we have analyzed and systematized various literary measures, such as abbreviating, merging and attaching different parts of the text, appealing to the reader by altering the grammatical number and person of verbs. This has enabled us to demonstrate the characteristics of each work and the unique traits of each author. Moreover, in our study we did not confine ourselves to the Gospel and Psalms, the usual Old Church Slavonic canon, but we have also looked into the related texts, such as the Epistles of Apostles and the Old Testament. Finally, in the last year of the project, based on the results of our studies we went beyond the analysis of biblical citations to look into the impact the Old Church Slavonic Gospel and South Slavic lives of saints (The Lives of Saints Cyril and Methodius) had on the language of the Russian Primary Chronicle "Povest' vremennykh let". This subject is related to the historical study we are going to conduct in the broader context of analyzing the written register of Slavic languages.