Imperativele Predaniei în câteva reprezentări iconografice ale Sfântului evanghelist Ioan cu ucenicul său, Prohor

The imperative of “Predania” in some iconographic representations of Saint John the Evangelist with his disciple, Prochorus

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https://doi.org/10.35824/sjrs.v6i1.25172

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predania, transmission, continuity, divine revelation, master-disciple relationship, teaching, Saint John the Evangelist, Prochorus, disciple of Saint John the Theologian

Abstract

The Judeo-Christian culture is par excellence a logocentric culture, derived from the Word of the Creator and from the founding narrative, which, being fundamental elements for shaping this culture, is however transmitted in writing. From the Tablets of the Law, where the Decalogue is written by the finger of God himself, to the Pentateuch dictated to Moses (the Torah), or the Gospels instilled into the four apostles under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, an entire sacred history unfolds under the sign of revelation and, implicitly, of the imperative to transmit the revealed truths, i.e. the “predanie”.

Starting from this observation, our study aims to focus on, and analyse, some of the symbols that are recurrently exploited to suggest the idea of revelation received and transmitted instantaneously, starting from the representation of St. John the Evangelist dictating the Gospel (or The Book of the Revelation or the Apocalypse) to his disciple Prochorus.

 

Author Biography

Laura Zăvăleanu, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca

Laura Lazăr Zăvăleanu, PhD lecturer at the Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, specialist in Ancient Romanian Literature, author and coauthor of several volumes and books, and of numerous studies and articles, on the architectures of space and time and on the para-text in Ancient Romanian literature, as well as on the relationship of the literary text with its iconographic representations, published in collective volumes or in specialised journals in Romania and abroad.

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2023-05-15

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Zăvăleanu, L. (2023). Imperativele Predaniei în câteva reprezentări iconografice ale Sfântului evanghelist Ioan cu ucenicul său, Prohor: The imperative of “Predania” in some iconographic representations of Saint John the Evangelist with his disciple, Prochorus. Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies, 6(1), 43–60. https://doi.org/10.35824/sjrs.v6i1.25172

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Vol. 6 No. 1 (2023): Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies

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