caa a22 4500 378938371 CHVBK 20180305123646.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20041219xx s 000 0 ger 10.1515/zach.8.2.276 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/zach.8.2.276 Rüpke Jörg 1 Universität Erfurt, Professur für Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, Postfach 307, 99006 Erfurt, Deutschland/Germany. Der Hirte des Hermas: Plausibilisierungs- und Legitimierungsstrategien im Übergang von Antike und Christentum [Elektronische Daten] [Jörg Rüpke] Concentrating on the opening "book of visions” of the Pastor Hermae the article analyzes the interplay of the genre of apocalyptic and a strategy of visionary legitimization. A close reading shows a carefully structured text that tries to combine the generic expectations of the apocalypsis of John with a visionary biography that is part of the hearers' (rather than readers') neighbourhood. This approach is able to interpret several hitherto awkward elements as part of a world view shared by recent as well as longstanding Christians. Thus, the Pastor Hermae is a document no less of Roman than of Christian religion. © Walter de Gruyter Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum Walter de Gruyter 8/2(2004-12-19), 276-298 0949-9571 8:2<276 2004 8 zach https://doi.org/10.1515/zach.8.2.276 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/zach.8.2.276 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Rüpke Jörg 1 Universität Erfurt, Professur für Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, Postfach 307, 99006 Erfurt, Deutschland/Germany NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum Walter de Gruyter 8/2(2004-12-19), 276-298 0949-9571 8:2<276 2004 8 zach CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter