Palaea Historica ("Old Testament History") is an anonymous ninth century AD Byzantine chronicle which retells and expands on events in the Hebrew Bible. The Greek text of Palaea survives in manuscripts dating from the 12th to 16th centuries [1] as well as a Slavonic translation.

One type of the media that played a major role in dissemination of the Jewish pseudepigraphical traditions were historiographical compendiums known as “Palaeas” (from Greek Palaea – “ancient”). The Palaeas are historiographies in which canonical biblical stories are mixed with non-canonical elaborations and interpretations.

Palea (Old East Slavic: Палєя, Greek: παλαιός, "ancient, dilapidated"; the name comes from the Greek naming of the Old Testament - παλαιὰ Διαθήκη) is a monument or several interconnected monuments of the Old Russian literature, setting out the Old Testament history with additions from apocryphal monuments and some ancient Christian works, as wel...

Palaea may refer to: Pleiae, a town of ancient Laconia, Greece; Philaea, a town of ancient Cilicia, Asia Minor, now in Turkey; Palaia Fokaia, former community and a seaside town in East Attica, Greece; Palaea Historica, a ninth-century Byzantine chronicle

Palaea Historica William Adler For students of Second Temple Judaism, the Palaea Historica (“Old Testament History”), an anonymous work composed sometime in the late ninth to early tenth centuries, is probably most noteworthy for its copious assortment of parabiblical legends about biblical personalities.1 The conventional title,

The review discusses Małgorzata Skowronek's book on the second Slavic translation of the Palaea Historica, detailing its structure which includes a source analysis and an original text edition. The work covers editions and copies of the text, textual variations, and offers a thorough examination of the Palaea Historica's significance within ...

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In the Palaea, the exchange between Ephron and Abraham takes place almost immediately before the historic meeting between him and Melchizedek. After the incident in Ephron’s court, Abraham is instructed by God to take costly raiment, bread, wine, and a razor, ascend Mount Tabor, and shout three times, “Man of God!” (31.4–8).

This is an article for the Orthodox Encyclopedia (Pravoslavnaya entsiklopediya) dedicated to all the types of the Church Slavonic works which were entitled 'Paleya,' i.d., Historical Palaea, Explanatory Palaea, and Complete and Short Chronographical Palaea.

2022年6月3日 · During my research leave at Dumbarton Oaks in 2022/23, I intend to continue my work on a critical edition of the Greek text of the Palaea Historica, a narrative retelling of Old Testament history composed sometime after the ninth century. The only edition currently available is based on two manuscripts, both of which are marred by numerous ...