This book provides the first collection of Slavonic pseudepigrapha translated into a western European language. It includes the original texts, their translations, and commentaries focusing on the history of motifs and based on the study of parallel material in ancient and medieval Jewish and Christian literature.

• Introduction


• 1: About All Creation


• 2: The Creation of Adam


• 3: Adam's Contract with Satan


• 4: The Tale about the Tree of the Cross


• 5: The Appeal of Adam to Lazarus


• 6: The Sea of Tiberias


• 7: About the Ark


• 8: The Ladder of Jacob


• Bibliography

Alexander Kulik is Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department of German, Russian and East European Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He held visiting positions at Harvard, Moscow State University, University College London, Stanford, Freie Universitaet Berlin. Kulik authored two books: Retroverting Slavonic Pseudepigrapha (Society of Biblical Literature: Atlanta GA, 2004 and Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2005), 3 Baruch: Greek-Slavonic Apocalypse of Baruch (Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009), and edited the collected volume History of the Jews in Russia: From Antiquity to Early Modern Period with Zalman Shazar Center (Jerusalem) and Gesharim (Moscow). Kulik has founded and headed the Brill book series Studia Judaeoslavica
Sergey Minov has completed his doctoral studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in the history of ancient Judaism and Christianity, apocryphal literature and biblical exegesis.