Visio Sancti Pauli

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The Visio Sancti Pauli (also Paul's Apocalypse or Revelation of Paul ) is a vision of the hereafter and is one of the Apocrypha . She had a great influence on the visionary literature of the Middle Ages. Because of the connection with 2 Cor 12, 2ff. it was mistakenly ascribed to the apostle Paul . It is a forgery from the 3rd century.

The Gnostic Pauline apocalypse among the writings of Nag Hammadi (NHC V, 2) is not related to the much attested and traditional Pauline apocalypse.

Text transmission

The original Greek version from the first half of the 5th century has not survived. The original version was initially translated into two Latin versions:
L1, the so-called long version , must have been written in the 5th century, manuscripts have been preserved since the 8th / 9th centuries. Century. L2 is known in three manuscripts from the 14th and 15th centuries. It could be that L2 dates to the 12th century. The vernacular translations that begin with an Old English manuscript from the 10th century go back almost exclusively to the L1 version.
In the area of ​​the Western Church, over 200 manuscripts in many languages ​​of the Visio Sancti Pauli are known.

reception

Augustine of Hippo condemned the Apocalypse of Paul because it contradicted the second letter to the Corinthians . In the 12th century a Middle High German poem was created based on version L2.

content

Paul reports on his experiences from the first-person perspective. He describes the separation of body and soul, the encounter with an angel and the different regions of the hereafter , in which the souls have to endure torture, among other things. The visit to paradise described in version L1 is omitted in most of the later versions, but the punishments in hell are described in detail. Remarkably, the poor souls are granted Sunday rest after the Archangels Michael and Paul asked God for this relief from their torments.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Lexikon des Mittelalters , Volume 8, Sp. 1733. ISBN 3-89659-908-9 .
  2. ↑ Uwe-Karsten Plisch, in: Nag Hammadi German. Study edition , Berlin 2007, p. 299.
  3. ^ Lexicon of the Middle Ages , Volume 8, Col. 1733.
  4. ↑ Nigel F. Palmer, in: author lexicon. Volume 10, Sp. 419ff., Berlin 1999.
  5. ↑ Montague Rhodes James (Ed.): Apocrypha anecdota. A collection of thirteen apocryphal books and fragments , Vol. 1, Cambridge 1893, §19-31, §44-50
  6. ↑ Exceptions are the editors VI and XI preserved in Carolingian manuscripts.

See also

Web links

expenditure

  • Montague Rhodes James (Ed.): Apocrypha anecdota. A collection of thirteen apocryphal books and fragments. (Contributions to biblical and patristic literature, texts and studies, 2/3) Vol. 1, Cambridge 1893, pp. 11-42.
  • Theodore Silverstein (Ed.): Visio Sancti Pauli. The History of the Apocalypse in Latin together with nine Texts , London 1935
  • Lenka Jiroušková: The Visio Pauli. Ways and changes of an oriental apocryphal in the Latin Middle Ages including the old Czech and German-speaking text witnesses . Brill, Leiden u. a. 2006, ISBN 90-04-15055-2 , ( Middle Latin Studies and Texts , 34). With edition based on all text witnesses.

literature

  • Alexander Böhlig , Pahor Labib: Coptic-Gnostic Apocalypses from Codex V by Nag Hammadi in the Coptic Museum in Old Cairo , WZ (H) special volume, pp. 15–26.
  • Lenka Jiroušková: The Visio Pauli. Ways and changes of an oriental apocryphal in the Latin Middle Ages including the old Czech and German-speaking text witnesses . Brill, Leiden u. a. 2006, ISBN 90-04-15055-2 , ( Middle Latin Studies and Texts , 34).
  • Peter Dinzelbacher : Visio Pauli. In: Lexikon des Mittelalters 8, Sp. 1733.
  • Hugo Duensing, Aurelio de Santos Otero: Apocalypse des Paulus , in: Wilhelm Schneemelcher (Ed.): New Testament Apocrypha in German translation . Volume 2: Apostolic, Apocalypses and related matters. Mohr: Tübingen, 5th edition 1989, ISBN 3-16-145181-3 , pp. 644-675.
  • Volker Mertens : Visio Sancti Pauli II. In: author lexicon . Volume 10. Sp. 423-425, Berlin 1999.
  • Nigel F. Palmer: Visio Sancti Pauli I. In: author lexicon. Volume 10. Sp. 418-423, Berlin 1999.