Jewish and Christian Scriptures: The Function of 'Canonical' and 'Non-Canonical' Religious Texts

ISBN-13: 9780567618702 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 256 str.

James H. Charlesworth; Lee Martin McDonald

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Over the past four decades, many scholars have focused on the expanding collection of alleged "extra-canonical" documents that were deemed inspired by God in numerous early Jewish and Christian groups. Eventually, these texts ceased to have an authoritative role in Judaism and Christianity and were branded "extra-canonical." Now, these documents, once considered sacred, are recognized as fundamental in understanding antiquity, and the development of the canon. Many scholars are now according an authority to some of these texts This volume draws attention to these ancient religious texts, especially the so-called "non-canonical" texts, by focusing on how they were used or functioned in early societies. The contributors also warn us about the assumed barriers between "canon" and "extra-canon," "texts" and "traditions," and they suggest that we should be careful with labels such as "Jewish" and "Christian." The contributors also indicate, intermittently or implicitly, the importance of combining disciplines that had been isolated, especially the study of texts, the exploration of the canonical process, and the relevance of sociology in studying ancient groups.

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Preface: James H. Charlesworth and Lee Martin McDonald Abbreviations Introduction: 'What's Up Now? Renewal of an Important Investigation' James A. Sanders 1. What Do We Mean by Canon? Some Modern and Ancient Questions Lee Martin McDonald Response: Loren Johns 2. People of the Book and the Book of the People James H. Charlesworth Response: Andrei Orlov 3. Citation Formulae as Indices to Canonicity in Early Jewish and Early Christian Literature Kenneth Penner Response: Lee Martin McDonald 4. Rewriting the Sacred: Some Problems of Textual Authority in Light of the Rewritten Scriptures from Qumran Casey Elledge Response: Brent Strawn 5. Jude's Citation of 1 Enoch Jeremy Hultin Response: Leslie Walck 6. The Pseudepigrapha and the New Testament: The Case of the Acts of the Apostles Craig A. Evans Response: Brian D. Rhea 7. Apocrypha and Liturgy in the Fourth Century: The Case of the ‘Six Books' Dormition Apocryphon Stephen J. Shoemaker Response: George Zervos 8. The Transfiguration Remembered, Reinterpreted, and Reenacted in Acts of Peter 20-21 Simon S. Lee Response: Henry Rietz Selected Bibliography: Canonical Criticism and the Use of Scriptures in Early Judaism and Early Christianity Indexes