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In the 19th and 20th centuries, historical-critical scholarship dismantled the theory that the author was St. Paul’s convert. Stylistic analysis and historical clues within the text—such as a lack of distinctively 1st-century concerns and a reliance on the Neoplatonic philosophy of Proclus—point to a writer active around 500 AD, likely in Syria. pseudo-dionysius the complete works pdf
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