1st Edition
The Authorship of the Pseudo-Dionysian Corpus A Deliberate Forgery or Clever Literary Ploy?
By Vladimir Kharlamov
Copyright 2020
104 Pages
by
Routledge
102 Pages
by
Routledge
102 Pages
by
Routledge
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This monograph revisits one of the most debated aspects of Dionysian scholarship: the enigma of its authorship. To establish the identity of the author remains impossible. However, the legitimacy of the attribution of the corpus to Dionysius the Areopagite should not be seen as an intended forgery but rather as a masterfully managed literary device, which better indicates the initial intention of... Read more
Introduction
Chapter 1: Attempts to Justify Pseudonymous Affiliation
Chapter 2: Known and Conventionally Accepted Facets of the CD in Relation to Its Authorship
Chapter 3: How Serious Was the Author of the CD About the First-Century Environment?
Chapter 4: The Dionysian Society
Chapter 5: The Metaphorical Symbolism of the Attribution
Conclusion
Biography
Vladimir Kharlamov gained his PhD in Theological and Religious Studies at Drew University, US. His research in Pseudo-Dionysius and deification is closely connected with issues of interrelationship and dialogue between the emerging Christian Roman-Byzantine identity and the society of Late Antiquity at large.
