Apocalypse of Paul
- Date of account
- Probably 4th century; expanded in late antique and medieval versions
- Location
- Egyptian or eastern Mediterranean textual milieu; later transmitted widely in Europe
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Apocalypse of Paul is a Christian otherworld journey describing the apostle’s ascent through heavens, judgment scenes, punishments, and paradise. It survives in Greek, Coptic, Syriac, Latin, and many vernacular versions, making it valuable for comparing how visionary geography and moral accounting changed through transmission. Its attribution to Paul is pseudepigraphic, and the original composition context remains debated. Medieval redactions sometimes differ substantially from the late antique core, so researchers should distinguish manuscript families rather than treat “the Apocalypse of Paul” as a single stable report.
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