Le "Erotapokriseis" e il Genere Letterario delle Apocalissi: Il caso dell'"Apocalisse di San Giovanni il Teologo" = The "Erotapokriseis" and the literary genre of the Apocalypses : the case of the "Apocalypse of St. John the Theologian"
This paper deals with the Apocalypse of Saint John the Theologian, a Byzantine apocalypse that can be dated in the early 8th century. Its narrative structure, due to the presence of formal elements and contents belonging to different literary genres, witnesses to the transformation processes of the...
| Subtitles: | The "Erotapokriseis" and the literary genre of the Apocalypses |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Ed. Morcelliana
[2020]
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| In: |
Rivista di storia del cristianesimo
Year: 2020, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 185-204 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAC Church history 500-1500; Middle Ages NBQ Eschatology |
| Further subjects: | B
Apocalisse
B Questions-and-Answers Literature B Apocalypse B Christianity B Eschatology B Genere letterario B Literary Form B Bible. Revelation B Jews B Letteratura di domande e risposte B Erotapokriseis bizantine B Byzantine Erotapokriseis B Escatologia B Literary Genre |
| Summary: | This paper deals with the Apocalypse of Saint John the Theologian, a Byzantine apocalypse that can be dated in the early 8th century. Its narrative structure, due to the presence of formal elements and contents belonging to different literary genres, witnesses to the transformation processes of the literary genre of the apocalypses. The present contribution is therefore proposed as a "case study" for a better understanding of such processes. This work was certainly conceived by its author as a hypertext of the canonical Apocalypse of John. It describes the events of the end of the world, using both narrative elements typical of the literary tradition of Jewish and Christian apocalypses and eschatological topics distinctive of Byzantine apocalypses. The revelation is here framed into a pattern of questions asked by the apostle John and answers given by Christ's heavenly voice: this fits the literary genre erotapokriseis then used in several fields of knowledge. The author of this apocalypse clearly knows some Byzantine collections of erotapokriseis and draws on them for material concerning mainly the resurrection of the dead and the final judgment. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Rivista di storia del cristianesimo
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