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Language and Text
2017. Vol. 4, no. 4, 85–118
doi:10.17759/langt.2017040407
ISSN: 2312-2757 (online)

Apocryphal images of the other world in the Apocrypha "The vision of the Apostle Paul", "Walking of the Virgin by Flour", "Questions and Answers of St. Athanasius to the Antiochus"

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V. Milkov

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Abstract

In the publication the apocryphal texts are reproduced and analyzed, which describe the other world and the posthumous destinies of souls of the dead people. A place of torment sinners and Paradise are described in such Apocryphas as "The Vision of the Apostle Paul", "Walking of the Virgin by Flour", "Questions and Answers of St. Athanasius to the Antiochus". In the analytical part of the publication the author systemizes data about the editions of the apocryphal works and gives information about the manuscripts in which the data revision submitted. The publication contains the translation of the Apocrypha in modern Russian language.

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Keywords: Old Russian book culture, the Apocrypha, the publication of text and translation, the earthly Paradise, the hell, the post-mortem fate of the dead

Journal rubric: World Literature. Textology

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/langt.2017040407

For citation: Milkov V. Apocryphal images of the other world in the Apocrypha "The vision of the Apostle Paul", "Walking of the Virgin by Flour", "Questions and Answers of St. Athanasius to the Antiochus" [Elektronnyi resurs]. Âzyk i tekst = Language and Text, 2017. Vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 85–118. DOI: 10.17759/langt.2017040407. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Vladimir Milkov, Doctor of Philosophy, Senior Researcher, Department of History of Russian Philosophy, The Institute of philosophe RAS, Moscow, Russia, e-mail: dr_milkov@mail.ru

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