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New wine in old wineskin: Byzantine reuses of the apocryphal revelation dialogue
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The apocryphal revelation dialogue as a distinct literary form The term ‘apocryphal revelation dialogue’ originates in German scholarship. It was probably Kurt Rudolph who first observed that one of the main generic peculiarities of the gnostic writings in the second to fourth centuries was that they communicate in a special dialogue format he termed revelatory discourse (Offenbarungsdiskurs) or revelatory instruction (Offenbarungsvortrag).3 The nature of this dialogue type is aptly illustrated by the beginning of the work known as the
Letter of Peter to Philip.4 The text depicts how the apostles gather on the Mount of Olives and experience a supernatural revelation of Christ.
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- Published
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- Peer reviewed
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+ Cameron, A
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- HUMS
- Department:
- Classics Faculty
- Role:
- Editor
+ Gaul, N
- Role:
- Editor
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Host title:
- Dialogues and Debates from Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium
- Chapter number:
- 6
- Place of publication:
- London
- Publication date:
- 2017-01-24
- Edition:
- 1
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- EISBN:
- 9781315269443
- ISBN:
- 9781472489357
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English
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Chapter
- Pubs id:
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1601901
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pubs:1601901
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2024-02-22
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- Copyright holder:
- Péter Tóth
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Rights statement:
- © 2017 selection and editorial matter, Averil Cameron and Niels Gaul; individual chapters, the contributors.
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the chapter. The final version is available online from Routledge at https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315269443
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