Tales from Another Byzantium: Celestial Journey and Local Community in the Medieval Greek Apocrypha. By Jane Baun
This is an important and valuable study for reasons which are both general and specific. It is a detailed study of two Middle Byzantine apocryphal works usually described as ‘little known’, namely the Apocalypse of the Theotokos (of the Virgin), and the Apocalypse of Anastasia, and the first point i...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 60, Issue: 2, Pages: 717-721 |
| Review of: | Tales from another Byzantium (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007) (Murdoch, Brian)
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| Summary: | This is an important and valuable study for reasons which are both general and specific. It is a detailed study of two Middle Byzantine apocryphal works usually described as ‘little known’, namely the Apocalypse of the Theotokos (of the Virgin), and the Apocalypse of Anastasia, and the first point is that they are precisely not ‘little known’, except to a world of scholarship which demands clear-cut texts. Apocryphal works do not have a clear textual tradition allowing the presentation of a definitive version, but have what Baun rightly calls a textual biology, a protean development which defies the concept of text itself. M. R. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flp046 |