TY - JOUR
T1 - Attachment to the body in the Greek Testament of Abraham
T2 - A reappraisal of the short recension
AU - Mirguet, Francoise
PY - 2010/6
Y1 - 2010/6
N2 - The Greek text of the Testament of Abraham has been preserved in two recensions. While most studies focus on the long recension, the short one has been often overlooked as lacking coherence and unity. In this article, I suggest that the attachment to the body can be regarded as one of the main themes around which the short recension revolves, as death is presented as a separation between body and soul. In contrast with the long recension, where a disobedient Abraham opposes God's messengers, the short text does not stage a conflict between characters, but a common apprehension of death as loss of the body, voiced primarily by the archangel Michael.
AB - The Greek text of the Testament of Abraham has been preserved in two recensions. While most studies focus on the long recension, the short one has been often overlooked as lacking coherence and unity. In this article, I suggest that the attachment to the body can be regarded as one of the main themes around which the short recension revolves, as death is presented as a separation between body and soul. In contrast with the long recension, where a disobedient Abraham opposes God's messengers, the short text does not stage a conflict between characters, but a common apprehension of death as loss of the body, voiced primarily by the archangel Michael.
KW - Body
KW - Death
KW - Embodiment
KW - Short recension
KW - Testament of Abraham
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U2 - 10.1177/0951820710373977
DO - 10.1177/0951820710373977
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:77953275688
SN - 0951-8207
VL - 19
SP - 251
EP - 275
JO - Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha
JF - Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha
IS - 4
ER -