Some Observations on the Composition of the Medieval Slavonic Translation of the Acts of Paul and Thecla

Summary: 

The article examines the Old Church Slavonic translation of the apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla with a focus on the oldest extant manuscript. Only a fragment of the manuscript has survived, on the end and the miracles. The article relies on the original Greek text and later Slavonic manuscripts for comparison.

Dariya Syroyid (Lviv, ‎Ukraine)
darka@ucu.edu.ua

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