The legend of Jerome about Judas the traitor is an anonymous composition - an apocrypha about the history of Judas Iscariot , erroneously attributed to blessed Jerome .
The legend is included in the group of old Russian literary works about the incest and is a special type of incestuous plot, compositionally close to Oedipus , but different from it by a negative interpretation of the protagonist [1] . The plot underlying the Tale ascribes to the main character a biography of the Greek king Oedipus, who was destined to kill his father and marry his mother.
The legend goes back to Byzantine literary samples, but very early (from the 11th century ) it began to spread throughout Russia in a purely folklore variation on a biblical theme [2] .
The legend is included in the apocryphal “ Passion of Christ ”, popular in Russia, which tells about the last days of Jesus Christ (events from Lazarus Saturday to Easter , with a description of the passage of the righteous from hell ). The work usually consists of 32 chapters, where the final chapter is “The Legend of Jerome about Judas the Traitor”. The legend may have different versions of the titles, more often, “The legend of the church teacher Jerome Saint about Judas the traitor of our Lord Jesus Christ ”
Notes
- ↑ Propp V. Ya. Folklore and reality. Featured Articles. - M., 1976. - S. 260—261
- ↑ Men A. V. Bibliological Dictionary: In 3 vols. - M.: Alexander Me Foundation, 2002. (article “Literary and Artistic Interpretation of the Bible”)
Literature
- Tikhomirov. The Life of Judah the Wicked. Guide for rural shepherds. 1879. No. 13. P. 337—342
- Porfiryev. Apocrypha New Testament. S. 231-235; Soloviev S. Historical and literary studies: Towards the legends of Judas the Traitor. Kharkov, 1895. Issue. 1, p. 187-190
- Kostomarov N.I. Legend of the Incest. // N.I. Kostomarov. Historical monographs and studies. St. Petersburg, 1872. T. 1.P. 313-315
- publications
- The Book of Jude: Anthology (composition. S. Ershov). SPb., Amphora, 2006, 430 pp. ISBN 5-367-00192-0
- Suvorov E. Religious and folk beliefs and legends. Living old. 1899. Issue 3, pp. 391–392
- Klimova M.N. Legend of Jerome about Judas the Traitor // Dictionary of scribes and books of Ancient Russia . L., 1989. Vol. 2, part 2.P. 345-347. An electronic version of the first and 1-2 parts of the second issue on the website of the Institute of Russian Literature.
- Gudziy N.K. To the legends of Judas the traitor and Andrew of Crete. RFV. 1915. No. 1
- About Judah the traitor. Collection of Great Russian Tales of the Archive of the Russian Geographical Society / Ed. A.M. Smirnov. Pg., 1917. Issue. 1, p. 129
- North Russian tales in the notes of A. I. Nikiforov. M .; L., 1961.S. 352.