Слово за Преображение от Йоан Екзарх и старобългарските преводи на хомилията In transfigurationem Domini (CPG 5807) от Прокъл Константинополски
The Homily on the Transfiguration (Slovo za Preobraženie) by John the Exarch and the Old Bulgarian Translations of Proclus of Constantinople’s In transfigurationem Domini (CPG 5807)

Summary/Abstract: The Homily on the Transfiguration attributed to John the Exarch contains substantial translated passages from homilies for the same feast by two Byzantine authors – Ephrem the Syrian and Proclus of Constantinople. The present article focuses on the excerpts taken from Proclus’s work In transfigurationem Domini. These passages are compared with the two complete Old Bulgarian translations of the homily. A contrastive analysis of textual completeness, word order, and lexical correspondences leads to the conclusion that the fragments in John the Exarch’s homily are the result of an independent act of translation. In the translational approach and technique, they not only conform to the tendencies characteristic of the early Old Bulgarian period, but also very often coincide with those observed in works clearly attributed to John the Exarch. From a linguistic perspective, the excerpts combine certain archaic lexical features with a greater number of characteristics typical of texts of East Bulgarian origin from the ninth to the eleventh centuries. Since no Greek source uniting excerpts from the Transfiguration homilies of Proclus of Constantinople and Ephrem the Syrian is known to date, it may be concluded with a fairly high degree of certainty that the compilation is the work of John the Exarch.

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