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which had a garden of fruit trees with a banquet table and a chamber of hanging lights. Above Paradise, an angelic bureau where the good deeds and sins of humanity are written by the angelic scribes in large books, and the voice of God being conversed with angelic entities. An extreme punishing area
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surrounded by Biblical features and figures. At the same vantage point and without interaction, she not only sees the seven gates of heaven, but also describes what is beyond the gates. The text though gives no description for Gates five and six. The first gate contains the sources for
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was in a state of renewal and reconstruction from the second half of the ninth century to the end of the tenth century. Old manuscripts of ancient texts were being surveyed and collected in a campaign commissioned usually by imperil authority. In the process of
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focuses on what is beyond the ending of the material world; the transmission process of revelations and the process of divine intercessory assistance. Taken to the heavens by Michael, Anastasia describes a blinding light from afar which she sees through, the
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is then shown to Anastasia where the emperors, priest, bishops, and other high officials go. Anastasia returns to the living, and the text is concluded with moral exhortations and
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in her time of being dead for three days, and after her resurrection, she explains the marvelous and terrible things she had encountered. The text was originally written in
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by an anonymous author and is dated either to the early tenth century or the early eleventh century. The genre of the text is that of touring
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apocalyptic text pertaining to the nun Anastasia, and her near-death experience. Anastasia explores the "otherworld" with the Archangel
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will use. Anastasia is also the first protagonist to actually enter the otherworld dead in the genre of Apocalyptic texts. She is not
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figure and is depicted as a modest nun. The author does not identify her with any saint. Anastasia's name is feminine and means
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The text purports Anastasia and her visions in the sixth century, but the text is dated to the tenth century in the reign of
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in the late tenth century. Anastasia of Sirmium herself appears in her church as depicted in the first vision of
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was compiled from four earlier manuscripts which consisted of two-tenth century liturgical works, an
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which lead him to become a fool for Christ at the start of the first four months he spent in chains.
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and its fictitious allegorical heroine is the first and last the
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The Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition: A Comparative Perspective
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Unlike most traditional apocalyptic texts that focus on
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dated near the turn of the eleventh century which the
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medieval
Michael
Greek
Hell
Enoch
Baruch ben Neriah
Paul the Apostle
Saint Peter
Mary, mother of Jesus
Basil II
Nikephoros II
Hades
John I Tzimiskes
typological
Eastern Orthodox Church
Anastasia of Sirmium
lunatic asylum
Andrew the Fool
Life of Andrew the Fool
eschatology
throne of God
hail
Jordan River
firmament
sun
Elijah
Paradise
doxology
Constantinople
transliteration

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