Title: Gesicht und Schrift
Description: How does one create vivid narratives about realms that cannot be experienced before death, such as hell, purgatory, and paradise? This work uses early Jewish texts to reconstruct the narrative process of describing journeys to the beyond, and follows its transformations through different texts - from the Apocryphal Apocalypses of Peter and Paul to the influential medieval narratives of the Visio Tnugdali (Vision of Tnugdalus) and the Tractatus de Purgatorio S. Patricii (Treatise on St. Patrick's Purgatory). --
Subjects: Analys och tolkning, Bible, Jenseitswanderung, Apokryferna, Criticism, interpretation, History and criticism, Literatur, Geistliche Literatur, Early Christian literature, Bibeln, Future life, Apocryphal books, Fornkristen litteratur, Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc., Christian literature, early, history and criticism