On some topoi connected with female roles in the "Books of Samuel"

Abstract

The article focuses on the Slavonic translation of several topoi connected with the understanding of female roles in the Old Testament books of Samuel I and II. For the purposes of the comparison the main manuscript (the Chronograph of the Archives) was confronted with another seven Slavonic manuscripts, containing the aforementioned biblical books, with the respective excerpts in the Slavonic Version of the Chronicle of George Synkellos, the Ostrog Bible, as well as with the Septuagint and the Vulgate. On the basis of the collected material the article explores the unusual metaphrastic decisions of the Old Bulgarian translator.