Apocryphal narratives and Religious Language as memory and meanings of the early Christian communities by the aegis of language theories

Abstract

The concepts of language theories become an educational and methodological materials of fundamental importance to the analysis of the sacred narrative, where the text can be interpreted and understood with other meanings and senses, from the different individual and collective experiences of the groups religious Christian, incorporated in the exercise of memories and re-elaboration of new narratives and that will enable the formation and preservation of religious socio-cultural identities. The study of apocryphal texts becomes a valuable methodological tool of profound relevance to the research of Early Christianity, defined and incorporated in the group of the different methodologies with power equivalence and complementarity, consolidated by its literary character of exotic genre and differentiation. It is in this perspective that we discuss here the work of Apocrypha Acts of Andrew, as a contribution to the research of Early Christianity y when expression strong of the construction of the forms different of religious language.