Full title
Second Enoch and The Tale of the Blessed Zerubbabel : Two Different Examples of Old Testament Slavonic Apocrypha
Research notes
Reader Checked|OA 13/12/2012
Reference type
Year
2009
Journal / Book Title || Series Title
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha
Volume
19
Number of volumes
0
Issue / Series Volume
2
Pages
109-126
Label
12/04/2009
Abstract
This article examines two Old Testament Slavic Apocrypha—Second Enoch, and the much less well known The Tale of the Blessed Zerubbabel—each of which has its own particular origin. While 2 Enoch has been studied for over 150 years, many questions concerning its origin are still under discussion. This article discusses the relation among the Slavic manuscripts to these writings. This article proposes that The Tale of the Blessed Zerubbabel deserves special attention because it is a rare case of direct translation from Hebrew into Slavic. This is especially interesting since the possibility of early Slavic translations from Hebrew (before the fifteenth century) is frequently denied by some scholars.