Sarë Gjergji

Scripture in the Vernacular: Biblical Intertextuality, Poetic Re-Creation, and Literary Authority in Pjetër Budi’s Christian Doctrine

This article reconsiders Pjetër Budi’s Christian Doctrine as a formative work of early Albanian literature in which biblical reception, vernacular writing, and communal address become mutually constitutive. Rather than treating Budi’s poetry as a derivative versification of Scripture or as a document whose religious pu...