Studies on Early Christian Apocrypha – serie
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Del 6 - Studies on Early Christian Apocrypha
Apocryphal Acts of Thomas
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
706 kr
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The Apocryphal Acts of Thomas is the first modern collection of studies on the most important aspects of the Acts of Thomas, an early Christian kind of novel, which was originally written either in Greek or Syriac. The volume starts with the memoirs of the Altmeister Fré Klijn regarding his own role in the study of the Acts. He is followed by an analysis of the elusive phenomenon of Thomas Christianity. The major part of the book studies various aspects and passages of the Acts: narrative strategies, the heavenly palace, factors of plot, the famous Hymn of the Pearl, the serpent, women, and the much-debated connection of Thomas with India. As a kind of summary of the results of some of our previous investigations, the penultimate chapter takes a fresh look at the authors, place, time and readership of the major Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles. As has become customary, the volume is rounded off by a bibliography and a detailed index.
Del 22 - Studies on Early Christian Apocrypha
Saints in Disguise
Performance, Illusion and Truth in Early Byzantine Hagiography
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
2 482 kr
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This book studies early Byzantine hagiographic Lives of saints who disguise their identities (4th-10th cent.), including female saints who live as men in male monasteries, ‘holy fools’ who pretend madness to hide their sanctity, and ‘beggar-saints’ who keep their true identities hidden from their family while they live in or near their parental home. Focusing on the element these saints have in common, disguise, the book addresses a central paradox: late antique religious authorities fiercely condemned any form of roleplaying or pretence, yet these narratives portray saints engaged in exactly that. Using the tools of narratology, this study sheds light on the hagiographic narratives’ complexities and nuances, thus revealing how they avoid portraying the saints in a negative light and how the saints’ performances become a vehicle for specific messages. It argues that the Lives solicit reflection about issues related to human experience of physical reality, identity, and about the slipperiness of these concepts, while offering, at the same time, stable conceptualizations of religious truth.