Fan fic Fooey? Fooey

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 21 Jun 2001, 09:19 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
Subject: RE: (whorl) Re: Fan fic Fooey?  Fooey
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:19:32
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> In my classical readings, I've come across references to
> pseudipigraphia which are outside of the Jewish and Christian
> traditions--much later works attributed to Virgil and suchlike.=20

Yep. And the idea persists in the Christian tradition well beyond
the time of the apostles: an excellent example being a set of
works which were probably by a Syrian monk in the 5th or 6th=20
century, but widely accepted for a long time as the work of=20
Dionysius the Areopagite (a guy who Paul converted in Acts),=20
and were so important in the development of theology that they're=20
still in circulation (as the "work of Pseudo-Dionysius").

> Heck, think of Plato--he wrote dozens of books which put his
> own thoughts in the mouth of Sophocles.

No. No way I'm touching this one. Uh-uh.

--Dan'l

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