On Traditions Shared by Rabbinic Literature and Slavonic Pseudepigrapha*. (September 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kulik, Alexander
• Is Part Of: Journal for the study of the Pseudepigrapha. Volume 28:Number 1(2018:Sep.)
• Page Start: 45
• Page End: 67
• Publication Date: 2018-09
• Subjects: Apocrypha -- motif -- medieval -- Jewish -- Christian -- Orthodox; Apocryphal books -- Periodicals; Apocryphal books (Old Testament) -- Criticism, interpretation, etc -- Periodicals; 229.9106
• DOI: 10.1177/0951820718805637
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0951-8207

Abstract

This article presents motifs shared exclusively by Slavonic minor pseudepigrapha and early rabbinic writings. It is suggested that these cases bear evidence of common early Jewish sources behind both rabbinic and East Christian traditions. This, it is argued, enables a much earlier dating of these rabbinic traditions (otherwise being dated to the period from the third to the twelfth centuries).