De quelques apports dans les recherches récentes sur le Roman clémentin

De quelques apports dans les recherches récentes sur le Roman clémentinSchweizerische Zeitschrift für Religions- und KulturgeschichteSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/G2E948IM/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.BernardPouderonDe quelques apports dans les recherches récentes sur le Roman clémentinhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/G2E948IMhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/G2E948IMhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/G2E948IMSchweizerische Zeitschrift für Religions- und Kulturgeschichte1172023191-206The pseudo-Clementine Novel, a work of edification that combines a romantic plot involving Clement, the future bishop of Rome, and the apostle Peter in their confrontation with Simon Magus, was built up from two main sources: a conversion story of Jewish origin, whose hero was probably already a man named Clement (probably an ersatz of Flavius Clemens, the consul executed under Domitian for «Jewish morals») and one or more doctrinal works of Ebionite inspiration. The Jewish story of conversion, which has disappeared except through the Clementine novel, offers a good example of the reality of non-missionary Jewish proselytism, based on personal contacts. Another contribution concerns the chronological and substantial primacy of one of the two versions of the Clementine Roman, the Greek Homilies, over the Latin version of the Reconnaissances and even over its lost Greek prototype. This observation allows us to date the very first version of the Clementine Novel (the Grundschrift) to the end of the second or the beginning of the third century, at the time when Origen quoted from it. Such an early dating may well provide information about the practices and beliefs of a so-called Ebionite milieu, which was in many ways very close to the early Christian community. Finally, it has emerged that the literary figure of Doctor Faustus owed much to that of Simon Magus as presented in the novel; it can even be assumed that the writer of the Book of Faust (the first written version of the legend) was inspired by the Clementine Novel when describing the character of the diabolical doctor. Pouderon, Bernard. “De Quelques Apports Dans Les Recherches Récentes Sur Le Roman Clémentin.” Schweizerische Zeitschrift Für Religions- Und Kulturgeschichte 117 (2023): 191–206. Bernard Pouderon, De Quelques Apports Dans Les Recherches Récentes Sur Le Roman Clémentin, Schweizerische Zeitschrift Für Religions- Und Kulturgeschichte 117 (2023): 191–206.