"The paleo of interpretation"

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The explanatory palea ("Palea is explanatory to the Jew"; in some works - the first edition of the Palea; - ancient, old; the name comes from the Greek name of the Old Testament - παλαιх Διαθήκη) - a monument containing a retelling of the Old Testament with polemical, anti-Jewish interpretations, as well as with a large number of additions and comments, including extensive apocryphal material. The explanatory paleaea contains lengthy theological arguments, revealing the symbolic significance of the Old Testament events as a prototype of the events of the New Testament; here the polemical exhortations of the “Jew” are read. Biblical history is sometimes interrupted by "natural" reasoning. Biblical events are described from the creation of the world to the time of King Solomon.

Textology
There are more than 15 lists of Explanatory Palea. The oldest of them - XIV - early XV centuries. The manuscript from the collections of the Russian National Library is the earliest illustrated list of the monument.

A kind of continuation of the “Explanatory Palea”, but differing stylistically and functionally, was the polemical monument “The Word of the Holy Prophet”, also known in science as “The Prophecy of Solomon”.

In the last quarter of the fifteenth century, especially in the 1490s, a number of works, previously of limited distribution, appear in a significant number of lists. These monuments could be used in the fight against the “heresy of the Jews”, and their distribution could be the result of recommendations of anti-heretical circles. In the same period, the distribution of the Explanatory Palea and the full edition of the Historical Palea began. Traditional works are beginning to be used differently. Thus, the monk of the Trinity Sennov Monastery Savva in his Epistle to the Jews and Heretics (1488) included long verbatim excerpts from the Word of Law and Grace, which are interspersed with even longer excerpts from the Explanatory Palea.

Contents
The Explanatory Paleia is a complex compilation in which the biblical text is abundantly supplemented with apocryphal materials. The contents of the Explanatory Palea (columns on the publication of the Palea of 1406) are as follows:
The story of the creation of the world (1-92), based, in particular, on the “Six Days” of the Bulgarian exarch John and Severian of Haval, which reads the apocryphal story of Satanil (73-78) and a description of real and fantastic creatures – the bird of alkonost, echinia, moray eel, phoenix, etc. (81-87).
The account of the creation of man (90-123), which includes a description of the structure of the human body (114-123).
The story of Adam and Eve and their fall (123–163), with an interspersed "natural science" excursion about the nature of fire and atmosphere (131–138).
The Story of Cain and Abel (163-195) with Discourse on the Relationship of Soul and Body (177-184)
List of Descendants of Adam (195-199)
The story of Noah and the Flood (199–227), the division of the land among his sons, the colonization and the peoples who settled the earth after the separation of languages (227–245).
Extensive tale of Abraham, based on the Bible with separate apocryphal