The Coptic Apocalypse of Elijah - Jewish, Christian (or something other?)
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2023 5:54 pm
The dichotomy of Early Jewish or Early Christian authorship?
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/copticelijah.html
WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_of_Elijah
Are there any other options? Can this text, represented by several manuscripts be some other type or form of composition? If challenged to think outside the square what other author or group of people could have composed and circulated this?
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/copticelijah.html
WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_of_Elijah
Are there any other options? Can this text, represented by several manuscripts be some other type or form of composition? If challenged to think outside the square what other author or group of people could have composed and circulated this?
As with most early Christian writings, scholarship on this intriguing work has for the most part been directed toward its hypothetical original composition, with questions of place, date, context, and background of its authorship and redaction taking centre stage. The work’s original religious identity, Jewish or Christian, has also been up for debate, with several scholars arguing that the text, as it has come down to us, is a Christian reworking of an original Jewish writing.4 While such discussions have a certain merit, the perspective of the present contribution will be different, focusing more on extant evidence and less on hypothetical texts. Turning the spotlight in the opposite direction and taking the extant manuscripts of the Apocalypse of Elijah as my point of departure, I will ask how the Apocalypse of Elijah fits into the broader picture of the production, transmission, and use of apocryphal literature in Coptic.
Hugo Lundhaug
https://www.academia.edu/100743675/The_ ... rypha_2023
Hugo Lundhaug
https://www.academia.edu/100743675/The_ ... rypha_2023