St. Tikhon’s University Review . Series III: Philology

In the article is regarded the use of Saussure’s opposition «language - speech» in explaining features of the NT linguistic data. The concept of the dichotomy leads to an incorrect interpretation of the NT writers’ communicative activity.

New Testament, koine, interpreting linguistic features, greek, semitisms

Vdovichenko Andrei

The article examines the use of adjectival and substantival forms of the adjective Божий in modern Russian. The author draws conclusions as to regularities in the occurrence of morphological variants, which is conditioned by functional sphere of the text. The author also discusses due to which reason the adjective Божий unlike other possessive adjectives terminating in -ий is characterised in modern Russian by remarkable morphological variation confirmed by corpus data.

morphological variation, adjective, adjectival and substantival forms of adjective, corpus-based study

Loginova Iuliia

The article examines the interpolated Brahmans’ episode in the Latin «Historia de preliis» (redaction J2) and the old Russian «Chronograph Alexander» (second redaction) and analyses similarities and differences that exist between the two versions. Their representations ofthe Brahmans share some common features, but the emphasis in their criticism of Alexander and Macedonian soldiers is placed on different aspects - the theological ones in the «Historia de preliis» and the practical ones in the «Chronograph Alexander». The image of Alexander is not quite the same either: in the Latin version he does not accept the mode of life and teachings of Brahmans and develops his own counter-theory preaching how a man should and should not live, in the Russian version Alexander fully recognizes the truth of the Brahmans’ leader, but forced into the path of conquest by the will of Providence, he cannot change his own fate.

medieval literature, Alexander the Great, Alexander romance, brahmans

Koroleva Elena

The author compares traditional and phonological methods of studying and describing intonation in French linguistics in Russia in connection with the notion of syntagm. The purpose of this comparison is to demonstrate benefits and shortcomings of both approaches to describing intonation and to find a solution to the question whether the notion of syntagm pertains to intonology or to syntax. The phonological method of describing intonation which has been developed by E. A. Bryzgunova in application to Russian and by M. M. Ruber in application to French material (and which is little familiar to many specialists dealing with French phonetics) allows us to resolve a range of contradictions and difficulties of the traditional approach, for example those connected with the use of the term syntagm. The author also traces the use of this term in French tradition with the aim of overcoming terminological confusion.

lingustics, french language, phonetics, intonation, syntagm

Olevskaia Mariia

This publication presents the first Russian translation of the Venerable Bede’s treatise On the Holy Places. The introductory article discusses the problem of the sources of the treatise, its purpose and its impact on the subsequent literary tradition. Close attention is given to the relationship between Bede’s On the Holy Places and the text of the same title by his older contemporary Adomndn in the context of the tradition of school theology.

the Venerable Bede, Adomndn, pseudo-eucherius, pseudo-hegesippus, biblical exegesis, school theology, pilgrim literature, topographical literature

Toskin Aleksandr

The present publication is the first Russian translation of selected letters of Synesius of Cyrene, namely 135, 147 (fragment), 113, 4, 105, 16. The publication is accompanied by an introductory article and commentaries by A. A. Kolotvina.

antique literature, ancient philosophy, byzantology, Byzantium, Hipatia, history of Church, classical philology, Cyrene, Synesius of Cyrene, epistolary

Kolotvina Anna

The publication contains the first part of entries beginning in the letter “D” (Russian “Д”). Characteristic features of the edition of the Dictionary, lists of sources, abbreviations as well as explanatory notes were set out in detail in the preceding issues

Davydenkova Mariia

The article is devoted to the genre of akathist in Russia in 19 century, namely to the “Akathist to St. Nephon”, known only in a single manuscript (RGB. F. 304. II. № 268). The author of the article on the basis of the comparative analysis of the “Akathist to St. Nephon” and different versions of the “Life of St. Nephon” demonstrates the proximity of the Akathist to the “Life of St. Nephon” in the edition by St. Dimitry of Rostov. This Life served as a source of the Akathist. The text of the “Akathist to St. Nephon” has been published for the first time.

manuscript tradition, akathist, hagiography, st. Nephon of Cyprus, Dimitry of Rostov’s Great Menaion reader

Poletaeva Elena