A study of Biblical Citations in Medieval Slavic Documents

在这个项目中，我们对中世纪斯拉夫文献中出现的圣经引文进行了全面的分析，以研究作者如何在文学作品中解释和使用圣经。分析的重点是中世纪俄罗斯编年史，如俄罗斯主要编年史“Povest' vremennykh let”，（旧）教会斯拉夫生活的圣徒，生活的圣徒西里尔和美多迪乌斯，和俄罗斯生活的圣徒，特别是生活的圣徒鲍里斯和格列布。除了确定原文斯拉夫翻译中使用的引文的语言学任务，本文分析并系统归纳了欧美学者追求的文学手段，如对文本不同部分的省略、合并和附加，以及通过改变动词的语法数量和人称来吸引读者等。这使我们能够展示每部作品的特点和每位作者的独特个性。此外，在我们的研究中，我们并不局限于福音和诗篇，通常的旧教会斯拉夫正典，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，根据我们的研究结果，我们超越了对圣经引文的分析，研究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）对俄罗斯主要编年史“Povest' vremennykh let”语言的影响。这一主题与我们将在分析斯拉夫语言书面语的更广泛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.