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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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In The Tale of the Prophet Isaiah. The Destiny and Meanings of an Apocryphal Text Ivan Biliarsky proposes an edition of the original text of the medieval apocryphon, together with images of the single manuscript copy. The author also includes a large commentary on the otherwise quite unclear narrati
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