Kultúrne a jazykovo-historické súvislosti vzniku Kerestúrskeho rukopisu z rokov 1893 – 1901
Cultural and Linguistic-Historical Contexts of the Origin of the Kerestur Manuscript from the Years 1893–1901

Summary/Abstract: The texts included in the Manuscript from Kerestur are inspired by the teachings of the Bible and other ecclesiastical texts, which are primarily educational and didactic in nature. The Manuscript from Kerestur is written in an accessible language that provides the simple believer with a possibility for deeper understanding of a variety of religious themes and symbols that serve to interpret the basic or canonical biblical stories. The purpose of literary treatment is the moral ennoblement of the individual, especially in symbiosis with the truths of faith and the Church and in the context of the needs of cultivating literary language. Thus, the text of the Manuscript from Kerestur conveys the actual dynamics of the linguistic and cultural development of the Greek Catholics from Vojvodina, who have preserved their Greek Catholic identity precisely through and with the help of their vernacular language – the Vojvodina variant of the Eastern Slovak dialect.

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