Since the Christianisation of the Slavs in the 9th and 10th centuries, apocryphal and midrashic narratives, themes, and topoi continuously made their way through various channels - literary, iconographic, and oral - into the intellectual universe of Orthodox Christianity, with Hebrew, Greek, and Slavonic being the main vehicles of dissemination and transfusion. The aim of the seminar is to explore some of these venues of cross-cultural and inter-faith transmission, both direct and indirect, examining the problematics of the social contexts, and evaluating their impact of some of these key texts and artefacts in an historical perspective, across languages and religions in the Byzantine Commonwealth. No language requirement, course taught in English close