Vol. 18 (2025): International Conference Emigration and Literary Discourse
Mikheil Tsereteli’s Activities in Emigration

For Understanding the Old Testament Paradigms, Unfamiliar/Unfamiliarity, Persecution-migration in Hagiography

  • Khatuna Nishnianidze
Khatuna Nishnianidze
Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary
DOI: https://doi.org/10.62119/cils.18.2025.10921

Published 2026-02-19

Keywords

  • unfamiliar/unfamiliarity,
  • old testaments,
  • hagiography,
  • identity,
  • place of memory

Abstract

Unfamiliarity, as a universal experience of human existence, is understood differently in different eras (ancient, medieval, modern), cultures (Western/Eastern) and religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam). Based on the texts of the Old Testaments and their exegesis, we outlined the biblical concepts of the unfa­miliar/unfamiliarity, longing, images, themes, plots and motives. This gives us an opportunity to examine examples of spiritual and physical unfamiliarity of the characters, examples of their internal and external migration, based on the biblical narratives and its exegesis. Show why internal migration becomes the basis for external migration. Discuss the effects and motives of poverty and exile, voluntary or forced relocation, temporary or permanent departure from their homeland.