THE REVERSAL OF THE OLD TESTAMENT’S PATTERN IN
FOLK POEM “DEACON STEPHEN AND TWO ANGELS” Cover Image

ПРЕИНАЧЕЊЕ СТАРОЗАВЕТНОГ ОБРАСЦА У УСМЕНОЈ ПЕСМИ „ЂАКОН СТЕФАН И ДВА АНЂЕЛА“
THE REVERSAL OF THE OLD TESTAMENT’S PATTERN IN FOLK POEM “DEACON STEPHEN AND TWO ANGELS”

Author(s): Aleksandra D. Matić
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature, Serbian Literature, Philology
Published by: Универзитет у Крагујевцу
Keywords: sacrifice;Abraham;God;theophany;ritual;golden apple;resurrection

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the transposition of the motif of Abraham’s sacrifice in the folk legend presented in the poem “Deacon Stephen and Two Angels”. The aim of the paper is to denote the extension in which the Old Testament’s pattern of sacrificing is actualized in folk poem modeling, as well as to recognize, through folk creatorship, characteristics of “national’s Orthodox Christianity”, i.e. modified Christian church’s sermons in folk poetic’s key. In the central scene – the resurrection of the victim, the paradigm of Christ’s redeeming sacrifice and the acknowledgement of God’s promise is recognized in oral folk stylization (by using the symbolic of the golden apple and golden cradle), whereby the point of sacrificing is reconciled with the Old Testament’s code i.e. Abraham’s sacrifice as precursor of Christ’s sacrifice.

  • Issue Year: XVII/2016
  • Issue No: 60
  • Page Range: 185-195
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Serbian