"ANGEL IN THE FLESH". IMAGE OF SAINT IN LIFE OF ST. MARY OF EGYPT: PROBLEM OF UNDERSTANDING
Dorofeeva Lyudmila Grigor'evna
Baltic Federal University named after I. Kant (Kaliningrad)
Abstract. The author refers to the little studied translated hagiography and presents the hermeneutic interpretation of the Life of Mary of Egypt in order to reveal the text meaning intensity, considers the image of the saint in plot progression, reveals the main concepts that form its value-semantic space, and comes to the conclusion about the central position of two concepts: flesh, determining the nature of basic conflict, and transfiguration as the way to its transformation, which leads to the main characteristics of St. Mary as "angel in the flesh".
Key words and phrases: древнерусская переводная агиография, герменевтика, антропология, образ, сюжет, концепт, покаяние, Old Russian translated hagiography, hermeneutics, anthropology, image, plot, concept, transfiguration
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