Language:
French
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Revue des Etudes Augustiniennes
Angaben zur Quelle:
48,2 (2002) 297-320
Keywords:
Avitus,
;
Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc., Christian
;
Deluge
;
Christianity and antisemitism History To 1500
Abstract:
Analyzes the fragment "De diluuio mundi" of the biblical epic "De spiritalis historiae gestis" by Avitus of Vienna, written in 496-500. Based on Genesis 8:2-12, he evokes the flight of the raven and the dove at the end of the deluge. Argues that Avitus departs from Genesis, describing the raven as remaining on earth to eat from corpses. Shows that this fragment is similar to other Christian biblical epics of late antiquity and the early medieval period in which the raven is represented as an impure bird, excluded from the community. The necrophagous raven is also present in medieval iconography and in patristic literature. Avitus identifies the raven with the Jew, using invectives like treacherous, perfidious, etc. According to the Christian interpretation, Noah's ark symbolizes the Church, and the raven that does not return to the ark is a symbol of Jewish refusal to recognize the true faith, Christianity.
Note:
The raven as the Jewish people who don't recognize the Church.
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