Talking Skulls: On Some Personal Accounts of Hell and Their Place in Apocalyptic Literature
Abstract
Established definitions of apocalypticism and apocalyptic literature in Late Antiquity often disregard a variety of apocalyptic visions and ideas that are included in a variety of genres of the Christian literature of Late Antiquity. The present paper discusses personal afterlife accounts and more specifically, personal hell visions, as found in various Christian texts and sources, such as monastic and hagiographical or martyrological literature. These visions and their special features are analysed in the context of related apocalyptic literature and traditions, as well as in their relationship with pagan local traditions and necromantic rituals. As will be argued, personal accounts of afterlife present a specific literary phenomenon in the history of ancient Christian apocalyptic literature and tradition, but they also demonstrate a significant diachronic popularity in other religious communities and their literatures.
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- Titelei
- Editorial/Einleitung
- Artikel
- The Genre Apocalypse Reconsidered
- 3 Baruch Revisited: Jewish or Christian Composition, and Why It Matters
- Why did Early Believers in Jesus Write Apocalypses?
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- Edfu and the Oriens: On Re-discovering Ancient Egyptian Lore in Two Coptic Apocalypses
- Audi, Thomas, . . . Audi a me signa quae futura sunt in fine huius saeculi – Zum Textbestand und zur Überlieferung der apokryphen Thomas-Apokalypse
- Rezensionen
- Vasilije Vranic: The Constancy and Development in the Christology of Theodoret of Cyrrhus
- Konrad F. Zawadzki: Der Kommentar Cyrills von Alexandrien zum 1. Korintherbrief. Einleitung, kritischer Text, Übersetzung, Einzelanalyse
- Nestor Kavvadas: Isaak von Ninive und seine Kephalaia Gnostika. Die Pneumatologie und ihr Kontext
- Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed: Proba the Prophet. The Christian Virgilian Cento of Faltonia Betitia Proba
- Helga Köhler, Hg.: C. Sollius Apollinaris Sidonius. Die Briefe. Eingeleitet, übersetzt und erläutert von Helga Köhler
