Old Testament Names in the Text of the Ladder of John Climacus

The paper explores twenty-one Old Testament names found in the text of translated monument early Slavic writing, Ladder John Climacus. These personal are a special kind biblical quotations referring to events Holy History. study builds on comparative analysis Greek according publication Patrologia Graeca (Vol. 88) and oldest Russian manuscript 12th century. author looks identify various strategies delivering citations used by author, translator scribe book, which is explained absence canonical Scriptures long history existence Byzantine book literature. article follows research collective church memory medieval scribes manifests itself commonality topics, images, plots, ideas, expressions that go back Bible. novelty work lies incorporating new linguistic material extracted both from published texts unpublished codes. Personal (Jacob, Moses, David, Job, Lot, Adam) allude key symbolic images reveal several functions anthroponyms texts: referential, symbolic, emphatic indexical. Observations translation evidenced high skill erudition first but at same time revealed error (new Adam), was obviously caused illegible or incorrect reading version as source for translation. Contrastingly, under showcases spelling inconsistencies relation well multiple errors omissions characters. result copies made inattentive inexperienced scribes, one whom surviving Ladder, created two centuries after appeared.