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Volume 21, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 1155-3316
  • E-ISSN: 2034-6468

Abstract

Abstract

Usually approached as an early Christian apocryphon, thecontinues to resonate with the lives of many contemporary Christians as a source of religious inspiration and devotion. This paper investigates how and why a fourth-century apocryphal work found a following in rural Manitoba, where it was recently translated from German into English and disseminated in local Mennonite communities.

Abstract

Habituellement considéré comme un apocryphe chrétien ancien, l’continue à avoir des résonnances sur la vie de nombreux chrétiens contemporains comme source d’inspiration et de dévotion religieuse. Cet article étudie comment et pourquoi une œuvre apocryphe du IVe siècle a trouvé une nouvelle jeunesse dans le Manitoba rural, où il a été naguère traduit de l’allemand en anglais, et ou il a été disséminé dans les communautés mennonites locales.

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