The oration in praise of the Maccabees of Gregory Nazianzen according to a monk Jefrem ’s copy dated to 1351

Slavic Medieval manuscript tradition contains two main groups of Gregory Nazianzen?s orations collections. One group belongs to well-known Greek manuscript tradition. Another group differs from it. It is characteristic of the Slavic manuscripts. This paper deals with the collection of orations from the library of the monastery Decani bearing the signature 92. The manuscript dates to 1351. Its content reveals the affiliation with the Greek tradition which is elaborated in brief. The oration in praise of the Maccabees is analysed in details. It is compared with original text and the differences are noted. Some methodological elements connected with the translation techniques are noted as well. At the end this paper presents the Serbian Slavonic text of the oration.