Les chevaux colorés de l'« apocalypse

I : L'Apocalypse de Jean, Zacharie et les traditions de l'Iran

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ID4089328
AuthorsPierre Sauzeau, André Sauzeau
Year1995
Volume212
Issue3
Pages259-298
Publication date1995-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevue de l histoire des religions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0035-1423 • E-ISSN: 2105-2573
PublisherPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/rhr.1995.1262
OpenAlexW1970160158
LanguageFR
Citations received1
References cited5

The coloured horses of the "Revelation" of John How can we explain the « functional » pattern of the four riders, in the "Revelation of John" ? If the passage refers to one of the night visions to be found in "Proto-Zechariah", the colours - white, red, black - and the attributes - bow, sword, and a set of scales - clearly relate back to an Indo-European pattern, which corresponds to the three functions defined by Dumézil, to which some would propose to add a fourth function, embodied here by the last « pale » horse. One then can very likely infer that the text might have been devised by the author out of data borrowed from Iranian sources. Such borrowings are to be replaced within the current of exchanges that fared between Jewish-Christians traditions and Indo-Europeans ones, a process that partly led to the development of apocalyptic trends

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