À propos de l’ouvrage récent de F. Stanley Jones, Pseudoclementina Elchasaiticaque. Recherches complémentaires sur la genèse du Roman pseudo-clémentin

Abstract

This contribution comes in the wake of the author’s critical commentary of F. Stanley Jones’s excellent work, Pseudoclementia. It completes the latter study by proposing the author’s own view concerning the genesis of the Pseudoclementines as presented in the book Etudes sur la genese du Roman pseudoclementin. The Romance consists of a combination of three sources: a narrative tradition based on the confrontation between Peter and Simon the Magician, a second narrative source probably based on a Judeo-Hellenistic conversion tale featuring the young Clement, a character directly inspired by Flavius Clemens, executed in the reign of Domitian for having “Jewish ways”; and a didactic work influenced by the Ebionites, which one can safely entitle the Kerygma of Peter as indicated by the Clementine editor himself.