Emerging Christian Discourse: The Acts of Pilate as the Rhetorical Development of Devotion
The Acts of Pilate emerged probably in the late fourth century CE, drawing on the New Testament Gospels and on other storytelling. The document blends material and ideas from various early Christian spaces to produce a piece of emergent rhetoric aimed at the development of devotion and spirituality....
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brepols
2011
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Apocrypha
Year: 2011, Volume: 21, Pages: 151-168 |
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| Summary: | The Acts of Pilate emerged probably in the late fourth century CE, drawing on the New Testament Gospels and on other storytelling. The document blends material and ideas from various early Christian spaces to produce a piece of emergent rhetoric aimed at the development of devotion and spirituality. Among the blendings are mentally visualized images, a kind of pictorial narration, of events purportedly connected with the trial of Jesus before Pilate, the crucifixion, burial and resurrection of Jesus. This essay examines the blendings of rhetorical discourse and imagery in order to make suggestions about the function and rhetorical force of the document. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Apocrypha
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.APOCRA.1.102234 |