The Pseudo-Athanasian Homily on the Man Born Blind: A Slavonic Sermon Translated from an Unknown Greek Original
2021
Abstrakt
The article provides a textual analysis and a publication of the Old Slavonic text of the Homily on the Man Born Blind along with a Russian translation. The homily is preserved in 14th-century re-translated triodion miscellanies (the so-called novoizvodnye triodnye Panigiriki), where it is ascribed to Athanasius of Alexandria.
The original Greek text of the homily is unknown. This study considers the textual peculiarities of the homily and the relationship of its Slavonic manuscripts.
Moreover, the article analyzes the composition of the homily and presents a list of texts that were examined in search of the Greek original. The edition of the Slavonic text, along with the Russian translation, is placed in the Appendix.