La compilation irlandaise de la Vengeance du sang du Christ (Digail Fola Crist): État des recherches
The Middle-Irish tale on "The Revenge of Christ's Blood" (Digail Fola Críst) is not parallel to the apocryph called Vindicta Salvatoris. Based on a compilation drawing mainly from the Ecclesiastical History by Eusebius of Cesarea, the Irish story falls into three parts, a biography of...
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| Language: | French |
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Brepols
2004
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Apocrypha
Year: 2004, Volume: 15, Pages: 235-258 |
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| Summary: | The Middle-Irish tale on "The Revenge of Christ's Blood" (Digail Fola Críst) is not parallel to the apocryph called Vindicta Salvatoris. Based on a compilation drawing mainly from the Ecclesiastical History by Eusebius of Cesarea, the Irish story falls into three parts, a biography of James the first bishop of Jerusalem, ending with the martyrizing of the same, then the signs or wonders foretelling the destruction of Jerusalem, and lastly the description of the siege, AD 70, and of the numerous cruelties which then occurred. These last two parts rely on the War of the Jews by Flavius Josephus, through the quotations made by Eusebius. By its composition, the tale seems to bestow an additional meaning to the word Revenge: what has to be revenged is not only Christ's death, but also (and foremost) the death of his parent, James Minor, as it is suggested by the title, "Revenge of Christ's Blood". Obviously, the compiler totally accepts Eusebius' opinion according to which the siege of Jerusalem was an extraordinary punishment for an extraordinary crime: what the Jews are reproached with is not to have permitted Christ to be tortured and put to death, but to have refused to repent, and to have continued persecuting Christians during forty years. The Irish canon collections give a comparable comment on the punishment of hardened sinners. We also find some references to a (lost) continuation of the tale, which told how some Jews escaped from the siege and sailed to Britain or Armorica, in a sort of penitential sea-wandering (imram). One of them is said to be the ancestor of saint Patrick. |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.APOCRA.2.300054 |