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The Tale of the Prophet Isaiah East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450 GeneralEditor FlorinCurta VOLUME23 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/ecee The Tale of the Prophet Isaiah The Destiny and Meanings of an Apocryphal Text By IvanBiliarsky LEIDEN•BOSTON 2013 Coverillustration:MuraldepictingtheKladnitsamonastery“St.Nicholas,theWondermaker”, Bulgaria.WithkindpermissionoftheMonastry“St.Nicholas,theWondermaker”,Kladnitsa, Bulgaria. Thispublicationhasbeentypesetinthemultilingual“Brill”typeface.Withover5,100characters coveringLatin,IPA,Greek,andCyrillic,thistypefaceisespeciallysuitableforuseinthehumanities. Formoreinformation,pleaseseewww.brill.com/brill-typeface. ISSN1872-8103 ISBN978-90-04-21153-7(hardback) ISBN978-90-04-25438-1(e-book) Copyright2013byKoninklijkeBrillNV,Leiden,TheNetherlands. KoninklijkeBrillNVincorporatestheimprintsBrill,GlobalOriental,HoteiPublishing, IDCPublishersandMartinusNijhoffPublishers. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,translated,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical, photocopying,recordingorotherwise,withoutpriorwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher. AuthorizationtophotocopyitemsforinternalorpersonaluseisgrantedbyKoninklijkeBrillNV providedthattheappropriatefeesarepaiddirectlytoTheCopyrightClearanceCenter, 222RosewoodDrive,Suite910,Danvers,MA01923,USA. Feesaresubjecttochange. Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaper. 1InJudahisGodknown:hisnameisgreatin Israel. 2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and hisdwellingplaceinZion.12Heshallcutoff thespiritofprinces:heisterribletothekings oftheearth. (Psalms,76:1–2,12) ΓνωστὸςἐντῇἸουδαίᾳὁΘεὸς,ἐντῷἸσραὴλμέ- γατὸὄνομααὐτοῦ.καὶἐγενήθηἐνεἰρήνῃὁτόπος αὐτοῦ, καὶ τὸ κατοικητήριον αὐτοῦ ἐν Σιών. τῷ φοβερῷ καὶ ἀφαιρουμένῳ πνεύματα ἀρχόντων, φοβερῷπαρὰτοῖςβασιλεῦσιτῆςγῆς. (Ψάλμοι75:2–3,13) Cognosceturin Iudaea Deus in Israhelmag- num nomen eius et factus est in pace locus eiusethabitatioeiusinSion…eteiquiaufert spiritusprincipumterribiliapudregesterrae (Ps.75:2–3,13) CONTENTS ListofIllustrations...................................................... ix Preface.................................................................. xi Introduction............................................................ 1 1. TheTextoftheLiteraryWorkandItsManuscriptTradition........ 7 TheVariableDestinyoftheKichevoManuscriptandthe PlaceofTaleoftheProphetIsaiahinIt ..................... 7 TheTextoftheTaleoftheProphetIsaiah....................... 10 2. TaleoftheProphetIsaiahintheContextofMediaevalLiterature andModernResearches............................................ 29 Historiography ................................................. 29 PublicationsofthetextofTaleoftheProphetIsaiah ........... 30 CharacteroftheText........................................... 49 Authorship..................................................... 51 Localisation .................................................... 52 DatingoftheText .............................................. 54 3. TheChosenPeopleandthePromisedLand........................ 65 TheProphetIsaiahandtheNewIsrael......................... 65 GeographicalFeaturesofReligiousIdentity.................... 84 CitiesandFoundingofCities................................... 98 4. TheDivinelyChosenKing,HumbletoGod:TsarIzot,orDavidic Royalty ............................................................. 129 TsarIzotandHisReign......................................... 132 TheAntagonists................................................ 135 Goliath,theSeaFrank.......................................... 136 Ozia,theKingoftheEast ...................................... 139 TheDavidicParadigmofPowerandTsarIzot:TheBagrationi DynastyandtheIdeaoftheDavidicRoyaltyinthe Causcasus.................................................. 150 viii contents 5. TheRenovatorKing:TsarIsporandtheMosaicRoyalty: ConstantineandtheRoyaltyoftheRuler-Converterto Christianity......................................................... 163 TheMoses-ConstantineTypologyintheMediaevalWorld .... 165 Moses-ConstantineinBulgaria................................. 179 Moses-ConstantineintheTale................................. 189 6. KingsandTheirNames............................................. 205 Arev............................................................ 206 Basil............................................................ 210 Cometopouloi.................................................. 213 Constantine.................................................... 218 Nicephorus..................................................... 221 Roman ......................................................... 225 SeleukiaSimeklit............................................... 226 Slav............................................................. 232 Symeon ........................................................ 234 TheodoraandHerSontheTsar ................................ 237 Turgius ......................................................... 239 Conclusion ............................................................. 243 ExcursusOne:TheListofNamesoftheBulgarPrinces:Between MythandHistory................................................... 249 ExcursusTwo:TheBirthoftheFoundingKings ........................ 261 ExcursusThree:TheTabernacleoftheEmpireortheState-Church.... 269 Bibliography ............................................................ 279 Index ................................................................... 297 LISTOFILLUSTRATIONS 1. GIM86795,Kludov.123,f.400v.WithkindpermissionoftheState HistoricalMuseumofMoscow...................................... 22 2. GIM86795,Kludov.123,f.401r.WithkindpermissionoftheState HistoricalMuseumofMoscow...................................... 23 3. GIM86795,Kludov.123,f.401v.WithkindpermissionoftheState HistoricalMuseumofMoscow...................................... 24 4. GIM86795,Kludov.123,f.402r.WithkindpermissionoftheState HistoricalMuseumofMoscow...................................... 25 5. GIM86795,Kludov.123,f.402v.WithkindpermissionoftheState HistoricalMuseumofMoscow...................................... 26 6. GIM86795,Kludov.123,f.403r.WithkindpermissionoftheState HistoricalMuseumofMoscow...................................... 27
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