Jeremiah ( cu, І҆еремі́а bg, Йеремия, ''Yeremia'') was a 10th-century

Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedo ...

n priest and writer usually associated with the origins of

Bogomilism Bogomilism ( Bulgarian and Macedonian: ; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", bogumilstvo, богумилство) was a Christian neo-Gnostic or dualist sect founded in the First Bulgarian Empire by the priest Bogomil during the reign of Tsar P ...

. The earliest mention of him is found in a work of

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(c. 996–999). He is sometimes associated with, though more often distinguished from, the priest

Bogomil Bogomilism ( Bulgarian and Macedonian: ; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", bogumilstvo, богумилство) was a Christian neo-Gnostic or dualist sect founded in the First Bulgarian Empire by the priest Bogomil during the reign of Tsar Pe ...

. Bulgarian historian Yordan Andreev describes Jeremiah as one of the chief followers of Priest Bogomil, the founding figure of Bogomilism. In contemporary sources, Jeremiah was described as Bogomil's “son and disciple”, the former in the figurative sense. Indeed, Croatian Slavist

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identifies Jeremiah with Bogomil himself, a hypothesis that has been accepted by some scholars and rejected by others. Jeremiah was the author of a number of

apocrypha Apocrypha are works, usually written, of unknown authorship or of doubtful origin. The word ''apocryphal'' (ἀπόκρυφος) was first applied to writings which were kept secret because they were the vehicles of esoteric knowledge considered ...

l texts, most notably ''

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'', and several

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s. Due to their heretical nature, his works were included in medieval indices of forbidden books. According to Andreev, Jeremiah's works do not contain any traces of Bogomilism, but rather a different look at Christianity.History of early Russian literature Nikolaĭ Kallinikovich Gudziĭ - 1970 -"... Greek indexes but also those circulating in Bulgaria, particularly— and in considerable numbers— the Bogomil apocryphas, here attributed to Pope Jeremiah "

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