On Dating Old Church Slavonic Gospel Manuscripts

Abstract

could probably establish if OCS had not been invented and we had to rely on rather later linguistic data. Still , the manuscripts furnish conflicting testimony about many details , and the evaluation of the data requires that we know or assume something about the time and place each manuscript was written. It is vital to emphasize that from the outset we are in the realm of speculation; what is important is that our speculative explorations be clearly defined in terms of premises, assumptions, and working hypotheses. Too much of the discussion on these topics has been based on unspoken assumptions, and often one feels that investigators have been unaware of their own prejudices and unexamined hypotheses . First, a definition. OCS is the language found in a specific corpus of manuscripts} anything beyond this is already speculative.1 Let me therefore outline some of my basic postulates; many of them are uncontroversial, but this does not suffice to elevate them to the status of facts.

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