THE UNKNOWN APPEAL TO THE “JEW” IN THE COMPLETION PALAEA INTERPRETATA OF THE MID-16<sup>th</sup> CENTURY
The article is devoted to the unusual fragment of the Palaea Interpretata, completing its text in the single copy of the mid-16th century from the collection of E. E. Egorov (Russian State Library. F. 98. № 236). The text is an extensive appeal to the Jew. Its author summarizes the results previously presented in the Palaea (up to the Kingdom of David), announces the content of the New Testament sequel and exhort the Jew to accept Christianity. The genre correspondence of this text to the Palaea and thematic consonance to its last interpretations are substantiated in the paper. 63 copies of the Palaea Interpretata were used and investigated in the work, on the material of which four main types of its convoy were identified. It turned out that 8 copies of the Palaea Interpretata do not have David's prophecies, and the narrative forms in this story replay return to the beginning of the David's Kingdom. The hypothesis is proposed: the David's prophecies have later origin; perhaps the initial completion of the Palaea Interpretata was in the place of the David's prophecies insertion, where there is also a textual seam in the narrative.