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Flora tells a story : the Apocalypse of Paul and its contexts
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ISBN: 9781554582822 1554582822 9781554580446 1554580447 1299313213 9781299313217 Year: 2008 Publisher: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press,

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In early Christianity, many people were inspired to write gospels, treatises, letters, and stories celebrating the new faith, but not all of these writings are found in the New Testament. One such story from an unknown author is the Coptic, gnostic Apocalypse of Paul, a tale of the apostle Paul's ascent to the heavens that was lost for millennia and rediscovered at Nag Hammadi in 1945. In Flora Tells a Story, Michael Kaler discusses the Apocalypse of Paul and how it was shaped by its literary environment. The book takes a behind the scenes look at early Christ

L' Apocalypse de Paul (NH V, 2)
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ISBN: 9042916001 287723861X Year: 2005 Volume: 31 Publisher: Louvain Paris Dudley, MA Québec Peeters Les presses de l'Université Laval


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The Apocalypse of Paul (Visio Pauli) in Sahidic Coptic
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ISBN: 9789004526464 9004526463 9789004526471 9004526471 Year: 2023 Publisher: Leiden ;Boston Brill

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"The apocryphal Apocalypse of Paul (Visio Pauli) plunges us right into the heart of early-Christian conceptions of heaven and hell. Its vivid eyewitness account of otherworldly punishment and reward was translated into many different languages and inspired numerous later authors, among whom Dante. This book offers a re-edition and English translation of the ancient Coptic version. An exhaustive commentary makes the text accessible and situates it in the time and place where it was written, fourth-century Egypt. As this new study shows, the Coptic version is by far the best available witness of the original Apocalypse of Paul"--

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