Апокрифи с богомилски и с антибогомилски елементи: нови данни
Slavonic apocrypha with bogomil and anti-bogomil elements: new data

Summary/Abstract: The paper includes analysis of three apocrypha: Dispute between our Lord Jesus Christ and the Antichrist, Story about the origin of the Paulicians and Story about the Handsome Joseph. History of the texts both in Byzantine and in Slavonic tradition is not entirely investigated and the author makes an attempt to throw new light on it. New data are collected from Slavonic manuscripts in National Library of Serbia in Belgrade and the Balthasar Bogišić Archive in Cavtat, Croatia. Concerning Story of Handsome Joseph very interesting is the end of the apocryphon in which the origin of Bogomils is connecting with the generation of Benjamin, the last-born of Jacob's thirteen children, Joseph brоther: ѿ ныхь изыдоше злїи родовѣ. богомрьсцїи бабꙊне крьвомѣсцїи, with variant: еретизи богомили вавоуне крьвомеси. The conclusion is that on Slavonic soil the texts are edited, complemented and adapted to specific Balkan milieu in concrete period of time. The introduced elements characterize the oral tradition: on the one hand the influence of dualistic legends and, on the other, the rejection of the heresies and their grading with bright negative traits. The examined works testify that the environment for propagation of the apocrypha was not homogeneous as an ideology nor by the perception of apocrypha.

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