Още веднъж за цикъла „Молитви против треска“ и за лечителските практики, отразени в Синайския евхологий
Once Again About the Cycle Prayers Against Fever and the Healing Practices in the Euchologium Sinaiticum

Author(s): Maria Schnitter
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Кирило-Методиевски научен център при Българска академия на науките
Summary/Abstract: The paper is dedicated to the cycle of “special” healing prayers included in the Euchologium Sinaiticum (ff. 24v–57r). It comments on the texts’ notion about healing as a restoration of the broken by sin harmony between the sick person and God trough simultaneous application of verbal and somatic actions (the so-called “double performative”). The paper analyses the seven “Prayers against fever” which don’t have any known later equivalents in the Orthodox euchological tradition. The conclusion is that they are a sign of a matching between practical knowledge of the illness, a high level of theological competence and means of expression as seen in the folklore incantation. The chosen (common to all Prayers) biblical key turns the cycle into a harmonious whole, tied to the highest ideological arguments, which puts its status as a piece of apocrypha out of the question. The research offers the hypothesis that the “Prayers” are an original piece of the old Slavonic euchological legacy, authored presumably by one of the bookmen in the Cyrillo-Metodian circle.

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