Thèse--Faculté de théologie protestante de Paris.

Thèse--Faculté de théologie protestante de Paris.

Inaug.-Diss.--Göttingen. / Vita.

Diss.--Patristisches Institut Augustinianum, 1997. / Bibliogr. p. 485-540. Index.

Thesis--Lunds universitet. / Extra t.p. with thesis statement inserted.

Akademisk avhandling--Teologi--Uppsala, 1980. / Bibliogr. p. 198-211.

Transcendence and transformation have been established as key motifs in apocalypses. The transformation of a seer during a heavenly journey is found commonly in such esoteric apocalypses as I Enoch. No heavenly journey occurs in the works treated here. Rather, symbolic women figures--"ladies" in the classical sense--who are associated with God's City or tower, undergo transformation at key points in the action. The surface structures of Joseph and Aseneth, 4 Ezra, the Apocalypse and The Shepherd of Hermas are traced, and the crucial transformation episode or episodes are located within each structure. Transformation of figures representing God's people suggests the significance of identity within the apocalyptic perspective. Apocalypses allow the world to be viewed from the future or from the heavens (J. J. Collins' "temporal" and "spatial" axes); the genre also invites the reader to change identity (the "identical" axis), and so become someone in tune with divine mystery and revelation.

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Zugl.: Revised and amplified version of doctoral diss., Marquette University (Milwaukee, Wis.), 2007. / Bibliogr.: p. [195]-215.

Les communautés chrétiennes du paléo-christianisme ont été confrontées à la vie peccamineuse de leurs membres après le baptême, tout particulièrement face aux trois péchés que sont l’idolâtrie, le meurtre et l’adultère et qui constituaient déjà dans la bible l’antithèse absolue de la Torah. Si des auteurs anciens des IIème et IIIème siècles s’intéressent à cette question c’est pour y apporter une réponse, notamment par la mise en place d’une seconde pénitence, post-baptismale. Un groupe chrétien des environs de Rome en pose le principe avec Hermas avant qu’il ne soit développé par Tertullien dans sa communauté de Carthage. Pour sa part, une communauté syrienne qui nous a donné la Didascalie l’organise autour de la personne de l’évêque. Nos auteurs mettent en place des frontières destinées à protéger les membres de leurs communautés contre un retour tant au paganisme qu’au judaïsme. / The early Christian communities faced their members peccaminous lives after their baptism, especially with three sins : idolatry, murder and adultery. In the Bible, these sins already constitued the Torah antithesis. If ancient authors from the II and the III centuries were interested in this matter, it was to be able to give an answer while introducing a second penance post-baptismal. In the area around Roma, a group of christians established this new principle with Hermas before it started to be developped by Tertullien in Carthage. For its part, the Syrian community who gave us the Didascalia organised it around the personn of the bishop. Our authors started to place the boundaries to be destined to protect their community members to retourn to paganism and judaism.