The Anonymous Saint in the Armenian Tradition: Alexi(an)os the Voluntary Pauper or the Anonymous "Man of God"?
Rogozhina, Anna · 2022
Outlines the Armenian tradition of the story of the Man of God, known in Byzantium and the West as St Alexius. The Armenian legend survives in two main forms: a short synaxarial text and a fuller Life preserved in fewer manuscripts. Rogozhina analyses the style of the Armenian text, the striking absence of personal names, and other features that may reveal the origins of the tradition. She concludes that the longer Armenian version likely reflects an older, Syriac layer of the legend, while the shorter versions derive from the Greek: making the Armenian material an important witness to the legend's development outside the Constantinopolitan tradition.
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Rogozhina, Anna 2022. The Anonymous Saint in the Armenian Tradition: Alexi(an)os the Voluntary Pauper or the Anonymous "Man of God"?. Armeniaca. International Journal of Armenian Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2022), pp. 39–48; DOI 10.30687/arm/9372-8175/2022/01/002 (Edizioni Ca' Foscari, Venice). https://doi.org/10.30687/arm/9372-8175/2022/01/002
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The Armenian version of a famous saint's life turns out to preserve an older story than the Greek.
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The Armenian saint's life that preserves an older story than the Greek original.
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