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Opowieść etiopska Heliodora, utwór z gatunku starożytnej powieści greckiej, zwanej też romansem, jest dziełem o szczególnie skomplikowanej strukturze, w którą bardzo umiejętnie zostały włączone elementy i wątki religijne. Do omówienia w artykule wybrałem ich 20 najbardziej charakterystycznych dla całego utworu. Dotyczą one zachowań religijnych zbiorowych oraz indywidualnych. Do pierwszych należą między innymi: procesje, składanie ofiar, religijne uroczystości pogrzebowe, a do drugich: okolicznościowe modlitwy, wezwania do bogów czy sny z ich udziałem, a nawet nekromancja. Poza hymnem ku czci Tetydy, mającym cechy pieśni powtarzanej w określonej sytuacji, wszystkie inne miejsca, omówione w artykule jako elementy religijne, mają cechy indywidualnego zwracania się do bogów albo kontaktu z nimi w sennych widzeniach. Zagęszczenie elementów religijnych następuje pod koniec romansu, zakończonym przyjęciem przez parę głównych bohaterów urzędów kapłańskich. Ostatnim elementem religijnym jest wyznanie autora, że jego rodowód wywodzi się od Heliosa, boga czczonego właśnie w Etiopii.
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Heliodorus’ work Aethiopica belongs to the ancient literary genre called romance or novel today. His romance has a very complicated structure into which skillfully are inserted religious elements. Their content embraces public and private religious behaviors such as: processions, sacrificial ceremonies, occasional prayer, summing gods, a vision of gods in a dream, and even necromancy. Apart from the hymn to Thetis, which looks like a religious piece occasionally used to worship this very goddess, all other religious elements are mainly personal summing gods and deities or the contact with them takes place in a dream. The density of religious elements takes place at the end of the romance finished with receiving priestly offices by the main characters. The very last religion element is author’s confession that he derives his lineage from the god Helios, just worshiped in Ethiopia.
The Biblical Annals
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2011
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vol. 1
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issue 1
131-141
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The story of Heliodorus' defeat in 2 Macc depicts God's extraordinary victory over His enemies. The defeat of Heliodorus and his troops described as a personal work of God is an event which happened without any direct human intervention. The present article analyzes this issue in light of ancient heroes' fights with a deity. These heroes paid the penalty not so much as a consequence of their fight, but because of their revelation of a supernatural power. The juxtaposition of many ancient sources, in which we find both the fights of heroes against gods and 'crime and punishment' themes, reveals the conventionality of literary forms used by hagiographers. Pseudo-Philo's LAB is one of the works in which this tradition is present. The story about Mica's idolatrous sanctuary contains some threads which are analogous to 2 Macc, and can be examined from two perspectives. The fi rst one concerns a detailed description of punishment, whereas the second one focuses on an ironic dimension of the story. The analysis proposed in this research presents the composition of 2 Macc 3 as a certain literary convention. At the same time, it connects the rules of interpretation of this text with those relating to historical legends about theomachoi.
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