Palaeoslavica ХХХ/1-2. Cambridge, MA, 2022, pp. 49–60, 2022
The article deals with the accounts of Ephrem, a "disciple" of Joachim, the first legendary bisho... more The article deals with the accounts of Ephrem, a "disciple" of Joachim, the first legendary bishop of Novgorod. The earliest mentions of him are contained in the catalog of the bishops of Novgorod, composed in the early 15th century, and in the chronicles of the "Novgorod-Sofia group" (the first half of the 15th century). Ephrem is mentioned as the person who "taught us". In the scholarly tradition, this remark is used as evidence for the early dating (11th century) of the whole complex of "unique" accounts about the Novgorodian bishops of the 11th century. These accounts are known from the catalog of bishops, the "Novgorod-Sofia" chronicles, and (partially) the younger redaction of the Novgorodian First Chronicle.
The author comes to the conclusion about the late origin of this complex of accounts, offers a different interpretation of the remark about Ephrem and puts forward a hypothesis about the invention of this character in the text of the catalog of the Novgorod bishops in the early 15th century.
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The author comes to the conclusion about the late origin of this complex of accounts, offers a different interpretation of the remark about Ephrem and puts forward a hypothesis about the invention of this character in the text of the catalog of the Novgorod bishops in the early 15th century.
The author comes to the conclusion about the late origin of this complex of accounts, offers a different interpretation of the remark about Ephrem and puts forward a hypothesis about the invention of this character in the text of the catalog of the Novgorod bishops in the early 15th century.