Rediscovering The Apocryphal Continent: New Perspectives On Early Christian And Late Antique Apocryphal Texts And Traditions (wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament)
by Pierluigi Piovanelli /
2015 / English / PDF
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This volume collects the contributions of a group of scholars who
started rethinking, in 2004, the traditional category of New
Testament Apocrypha according to the new perspectives of a greater
continuity not only between early Jewish and Christian scriptural
productions, but also between early Christian and late antique
apocryphal literatures. This is the result of the confluence of
two, so far, alternative approaches: on the one hand, the
deconstruction of the customary categories of """"Jewish
Christianity"""" and """"Gnosticism,"""" and on the other, the new
awareness that the production of new apocryphal texts went on well
into late antiquity and beyond. In the twenty essays published
here, different facets of this apocryphal continent are newly
explored, from the Christian appropriation of Jewish stories and
literary genres, with a special emphasis on the case of the late
antique Pseudo-Clementines, to the complex and controversial
situation of the narrative roles attributed to suc h figures as
Judas Iscariot, Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of Jesus, or
Peter. Contributors:Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Giovanni Battista
Bazzana, Timothy Beech, Tony Burke, Dominique Côté, James R.
Davila, Theodore de Bruyn, Peter W. Dunn, Minna Heimola, Ian H.
Henderson, Cornelia B. Horn, Vahan Hovhanessian, F. Stanley Jones,
Michael Kaler, Nicole Kelley, Louis Painchaud, Timothy Pettipiece,
Pierluigi Piovanelli, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Stephen J. Shoemaker
This volume collects the contributions of a group of scholars who
started rethinking, in 2004, the traditional category of New
Testament Apocrypha according to the new perspectives of a greater
continuity not only between early Jewish and Christian scriptural
productions, but also between early Christian and late antique
apocryphal literatures. This is the result of the confluence of
two, so far, alternative approaches: on the one hand, the
deconstruction of the customary categories of """"Jewish
Christianity"""" and """"Gnosticism,"""" and on the other, the new
awareness that the production of new apocryphal texts went on well
into late antiquity and beyond. In the twenty essays published
here, different facets of this apocryphal continent are newly
explored, from the Christian appropriation of Jewish stories and
literary genres, with a special emphasis on the case of the late
antique Pseudo-Clementines, to the complex and controversial
situation of the narrative roles attributed to suc h figures as
Judas Iscariot, Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of Jesus, or
Peter. Contributors:Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Giovanni Battista
Bazzana, Timothy Beech, Tony Burke, Dominique Côté, James R.
Davila, Theodore de Bruyn, Peter W. Dunn, Minna Heimola, Ian H.
Henderson, Cornelia B. Horn, Vahan Hovhanessian, F. Stanley Jones,
Michael Kaler, Nicole Kelley, Louis Painchaud, Timothy Pettipiece,
Pierluigi Piovanelli, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Stephen J. Shoemaker
