The Authorship of the Pseudo-Dionysian Corpus: A Deliberate Forgery or Clever Literary Ploy?

ISBN-13: 9781032176666 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 104 str.

Vladimir Kharlamov

Opis

This monograph revisits one of the most debated aspects of Dionysian scholarship: the enigma of its authorship. The legitimacy of the attribution of the corpus to Dionysius the Areopagite should be seen as a masterfully managed literary device, which better indicates the initial intention of the actual author.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.