Elementi giudaici (e/o proto-cristiani) in Pap. Bon. IV? Alcune osservazioni

This essay aims at rereading the so-called Papyrus of Bologna n. IV (Pap. Bon. IV) in light of Jewish and early Christian visionary accounts. Pap. Bon. IV appears as an account of an otherworldly journey in which the pains of the hell are described, like some apocalyptic narratives from Second Temple Judaism (for example, the Fourth Book of Ezra) and Early Christianity (the Apocalypse of Peter or the Apocalypse of Paul) seem to do. Pap. Bon. IV emerges as an actual 'trait d'union' between Jewish apocalyptic descriptions of the hell, early Christian accounts concerning the other-worldly pains and the Greek-Roman (Orphic?) visions of the other-world.