"Non-canonical" Religious Texts in Early Judaism and Early Christianity
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"Non-canonical" Religious Texts in Early Judaism and Early Christianity

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"Non-canonical" Religious Texts in Early Judaism and Early Christianity

About this book

This volume draws attention to ancient religious texts, especially the so-called 'non-canonical' texts, by focusing on how they were used or functioned in Early Judaism and Early Christianity. The contributors are biblical scholars who have chosen one or more Jewish or Christian apocryphal or pseudepigraphical texts, with the aim of describing their ancient functions in their emerging social settings. These show the fluidity of the notion of scripture in the early centuries of the Church and in Judaism of late antiquity, but they also show the value of examining the ancient religious texts that were not included in the Jewish or Christian biblical canons. These chapters show that there is much that can be learned from examining and comparing these texts with canonical literature and evaluating them in their social context. No ancient text was created in a vacuum, and the non-canonical writings aid in our interpretation not only of many canonical writings, but also shed considerable light on the context of both early Judaism and early Christianity.

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Yes, you can access "Non-canonical" Religious Texts in Early Judaism and Early Christianity by Lee Martin McDonald, James H. Charlesworth, Lee Martin McDonald,James H. Charlesworth in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Theology & Religion & Biblical Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
T&T Clark
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780567335982
eBook ISBN
9780567251756
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Biblical Studies

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Contributors
  3. Abbreviations
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1 Early Judaism and Modern Culture: Reflections on the Theological Relevance of Early Jewish Literature
  6. Chapter 2 Christians in Egypt: A Preliminary Survey of Christian Literature found in Oxyrhynchus
  7. Chapter 3 The Reception of the Pseudepigrapha in Syriac Traditions: The Case of 2 Baruch
  8. Chapter 4 The Coptic, Arabic, and Ethiopic Versions of theTestament of Abraham and the Emergence of the Testaments of Isaac and Jacob
  9. Chapter 5 The Son of David in Psalms of Solomon 17
  10. Chapter 6 The Enochic Library of the Author ofthe Epistle of Barnabas
  11. Chapter 7 Ruminating on the Canonical Process in Light of a Bodmer Papyrus Anthology (P72)
  12. Chapter 8 The Hebrew Gospel in Early Christianity
  13. Chapter 9 Trapped in a Forgerer’s Rhetoric: 3 Corinthians, Pseudepigraphy, and the Legacy of Ancient Polemics
  14. Chapter 10 The Place of the Shepherd of Hermas in the Canon Debate
  15. Chapter 11 The Protevangelium of James and the Composition of the Bodmer Miscellaneous Codex: Chronology, Theology, and Liturgy
  16. Chapter 12 The Child Mary in the Protevangelium of James
  17. Chapter 13 Purity, Piety, and the Purposes of theProtevangelium of James
  18. Chapter 14 Thecla Desexualized: The Saint Justina Legend andthe Reception of the Christian Apocrypha in Late Antiquity
  19. Selected Bibliography
  20. Index of References
  21. Index of Subjects