RT Article
T1 Scribal intent: sociocultural appropriation of the Testament of Abraham in eighteenth-century Romanian lands
JF The journal of religion & society
VO 1
A1 Roddy, Nicolae 1954-
LA English
YR 1999
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1807359174
AB This paper focuses on the circulation of the Testament of Abraham (TAbr) within its Romanian sociohistorical context in an effort to determine how it is this first-century Alexandrian Jewish narrative found cultural relevance in eighteenth-century Romanian society. Textual analysis shows this Greek apocryphon to have been thoroughly "romanianized," reflecting a high degree of interaction between its narrative and social worlds. TAbr circulated outside the monasteries, suggesting that monks intended this text to be read by members of the literate boier, or noble class, who might find in Abraham the model of an exemplary "noble man" and remember the impoverished populace living on their own estates.
K1 Abraham
K1 Bible in literature
K1 Manuscripts
K1 Romania; Church history
K1 Romanian
K1 Testament of Abraham
K1 Transmission of texts
K1 the Patriarch