1. CHRONOGRAPHIC SOURCES ON "BOKHMIT" (MOHAMMED).
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VILKUL, Tetyana
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MUSLIMS ,TEXTUAL criticism ,CHRONOGRAPH ,LITERARY criticism ,NARRATION - Abstract
Th e paper explores the story of "Bokhmite" (Mohammed) placed in the texts of the Chronic le by George Monk / Hamartolos and the family of the Chronograph according to the great narration. "Bokhmit" for denotation of the prophet Mohammed appeared in the early East Slavic writings only; South Slavic ones have no traces of such a name. While there are few sources about Muslim prophet in the Old Rus'ian period, the Hamartolos' Chronicle tells on this topic in detail. Th e story includes a biography and a medieval description of the teachings of Mohammed, as well as the "Bokhmitic" concept for paradise. Th e Chronicle infl uenced the Tale of Bygone Years in its account of the preparation for the baptism of Rus' (986--987) and other Old Russian texts through it. Also, the Hamartolos' story was included fragmentarily in the Trinity Chronograph, Chronographic Palea, the Ellinsky (Hellenic) Chronicle of the se cond redaction, etc. Th e aim of this study is to provide a comparative analysis of chronogra phic texts, as well as to make these sources of the Primary Chronicle easily available to scholars working in the fi eld of medieval Ukraine and Russia. In terms of methods, this study applied textual and literary criticism. Th e academic novelty outputs a prime comparative analysis of the story about "Bokhmit" in chronographic texts. Versions useful in further work on sources are published in the attached tables. Conclusions. Whereas the author of the Tale of Bygone Years borrowed only content from the Hamartolos' Chronicle (there are no direct citations), long fragments of later are refl ected in the chronographic family. Th ough the text did not avoid abbreviations of phrases and words and plentiful changes in grammatical forms, there are practically no lexical substitutions. In general, the compiler of the hronograph tried to simplify the narration, avoiding opacity and making it more understandable for the reader. ranches of the Chronograph uncover further transformations of the text. In particular, the Complete Palaea has some of its own omissions, and Ellinsky Chronicle contaminates two versions. Th e study reveals interesting features of the chronographic texts that clearly indicate that medieval Christian bookmen hard worked with the narration about the teacher of their Muslim neighbors, demonstrating, at the same time, the typical manner of treatment of the sources by the chronographer, which concerned the problems of early Old Russian chronicles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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