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'I never knew the man' : The Coptic Act of Peter(Papyrus Berolinensis 8502.4) Its Independence from the Apocryphal Acts of Peter

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Résumé :

Genre and Legendary Origins
volume 5
Coéditions Peeters

Table des matières :

Bibliography ? Abbreviations ? Preface ? Introduction
Part 1 : Schmidt's Underlying Assumption of a Single Petrine Source in Antiquity Describing Peter's Acts
1. Schmidt's observations on the title Act of Peter
2. Nine points of consensus in thought and language between the Acts of Peter and the Act of Peter
a) Narrated events occur on a Sunday
b) Healings are common to both texts
c) Visions play a big role
d) The paralutikoi are brought forward among those with ailments
e) According to the Actus Vercellenses asceticism is the early Christian ethical ideal
f) Similar phrases are used for the eucharistic sharing
g) The phrase 'eyes of the flesh, eyes of the soul' appears in both texts
h) Both texts portray God's mercy as being possible even after grave sins
i) Also the theological conception of God and Christ moves along a similar line in both texts
3. The witnesses of various erly Christian documents
a) The Acts of Nereus and Achilleus
b) Augustine, Contra Adimantum, Pseudo-Titus, BG 8502.4 and the Acts of Peter
c) The Acts of Philip : Sources and Dependence
Part 2 : A Miracle Gone Astray and the Origins of an Exemplum : In Search of a Literary Genre for the Act of Peter
1. A Miracle Story Gone Wrong
2. The Exemplum : An 'Historical' Account of a Father's Attempt to Protect his Daughter and the Chastity Story
a) The Exemplum
b) The Story of Verginia in Particular and the Chastity Story in General as a Species of Exemplum
c) Knowledge and Use of Various Greco-Roman Heroines as Exempla in Early Christian Argumentation
d) Concluding Reflections on How the Exemplum of the Story of Peter's Daugther Has Reshaped the Species, Chasty Story
3. The Homiletical Remarks : Driving the Exemplum Home
Excursus on Date ? Conclusion


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