Story about the Pious Israelite Hasanain the Arab Orthodox Hagiographic Tradition
In the present article its author examines the contents, a presumable origin and linguistic peculiarities of the Arab Orthodox verison of the hagiographic story about H?asan the Israelite, the pious wife of a rich merchant, who more than once was running a fatal danger in order to save her honour from sexual harassments of sinners and by the end of her life became a saint anchoress endowed with the gift of healing. An hypothetical relation of the main plot of the story with Hellenistic romance as well as with the totally rethought Ancient Egyptian Tale of two Brothers is demonstrated. As a result of a linguistic analysis of that hagiographic work an obvious infl uence of the Syro- Palestinian dialect of the Arabic language was elucidated. An edition of that story which has not been published yet, enclosed to the article, is based on its two copies, kept in Bucharest and in Paris respectively.