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Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. A pseudepigraph (also anglicized as "pseudepigraphon") is a falsely attributed work, a text whose claimed author is not the true author, or a work whose real author attributed it to a figure of the past.
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (or Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite) was a Greek [1] author, Christian theologian and Neoplatonic philosopher of the late 5th to early 6th century, who wrote a set of works known as the Corpus Areopagiticum or Corpus Dionysiacum.
Pseudepigrapha are falsely attributed works, texts whose claimed author is not the true author, or a work whose real author attributed it to a figure of the past. [1] Some of these works may have originated among Jewish Hellenizers , others may have Christian authorship in character and origin.
The earliest specific Christian references are in the late 5th to early 6th century: Pseudo-Dionysius gives them as Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Camael, Jophiel, and Zadkiel. [14] In Western Christian traditions, Michael , Gabriel and Raphael are referred to as archangels. [ 15 ]
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The author of the work is unknown. The core narrative, with its first-person writing, is implied to have been an account from the Magi themselves (pseudepigrapha). It is generally thought that most of the work is a unity composed by one author. [5] Two sections have been proposed as possibly independent compositions.
Guido Reni's Archangel Michael Trampling Lucifer, 1636. Archangels (/ ˌ ɑːr k ˈ eɪ n dʒ əl s /) are the second-lowest rank of angel in the Christian hierarchy of angels, put forward by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in the 5th or 6th century in his book De Coelesti Hierarchia (On the Celestial Hierarchy).
Pages in category "Ancient Greek pseudepigrapha" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.