Böttrich, Christfried, Fahl, Dieter, u. Sabine Fahl [Hgg.]: Von der Historienbibel zur Weltchronik. Studien zur Paleja-Literatur. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt 2020. 408 S. = Grefswalder Theologische Forschungen, 31 Geb.

The present volume is the result of an international conference, held in Germany (Greifswald, 2017), dedicated to a text that is fundamental for the knowledge of the "rewriting" of the Bible (Historienbibel) in Eastern Europe, the so-called Paleja. This text, known in the East Slavic area in two main forms, has only in recent years been published again and has become the subject of renewed studies. The various contributions in this volume analyse the Paleja not only in the context of the writing production of the Slavic world but placing it within the more complex tradition of medieval narrative texts illustrating the biblical story and in relation to the rabbinic exegetical tradition, as Ch. Böttrich masterfully illustrated this in the first contribution.