Bodmer library

La poésie biblique grecque en Égypte au IVe siècle. Enjeux littéraires et théologiques

The paper deals with the early phase of Biblical poetry in the Greek East. The new Christian poems preserved in a papyrus codex from the s0-called Bodmer Library (a group of papyri coming from the area of the city of Panopolis, Upper Egypt), has dramatically shown that in Egypt verse paraphrases of Biblical books were composed already in the middle of the fourth century. Their author had already attempted to give their answer to the challenge represented by a Christian poetry in classical language and metres.

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