Rediscovering the Apocryphal Continent: New Perspectives on Early Christian and Late Antique Apocryphal Texts and Traditions

ISBN-13: 9783161519949 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 439 str.

Tony Burke; Timothy Pettipiece; Pierluigi Piovanelli

Opis

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 Cote, 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. Shoemake

O autorze

Born 1961; 1987 MA; 1992 PhD; Professor of Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity at the University of Ottawa (Ottawa, Canada). Born 1968; 1995 MA; 2001 PhD; Associate Professor of Religious Studies at York University (Toronto, Canada).