Moss / Nicklas / Tuckett The Other Side: Apocryphal Perspectives on Ancient Christian “Orthodoxies”

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-647-54058-0
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Deutsch, 269 Seiten

Reihe: Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus / Studien zur Umwelt des Neuen Testaments

Anyone who wishes to manage their sources adequately must work with categories that help to bring order to the transcribed material. In many cases, such categories simultaneously shape the way in which we evaluate our sources. Critical reflection of the chosen categories is therefore crucial for robust historical study. This rings especially true when certain categories are not viewed through neutral eyes, but through polemically judgemental eyes. One extreme case would be the category of 'apocryphalness'. In some areas, associations like 'fraudulent' versus and 'secret' - interlinked to this term in Antiquity - are still shaping the way Christian apocrypha are considered to this day. Closely associated with this is the use of the adjectival categories like '(proto)-orthodox', 'majority church' versus those like 'heretical' (again polemically pejorative). In their chapters, the contributors demonstrate not only how the set limits - as referred to the categories above - do indeed play a role, but more importantly, where these limits have been exceeded and where we must therefore work with new and different categories to understand the meaning of 'apocryphal' writings and/or writings that have 'become apocryphal' in terms of the history of an ancient Christianity perceived as multi-dimensional and dynamic. The following questions play a significant role in our understanding of this: In which contexts and by which groups are 'newly apocryphal' writings used? Where do apocryphal writings or those 'newly apocryphal' play a contextual role that would, nowadays, be perceived as 'orthodox'? Which functions are assign thereto?

Dr. theol. Tobias Nicklas ist Professor für Exegese und Hermeneutik des Neuen Testaments an der Katholisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Regensburg.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moss, Candida R.

Nicklas, Tobias

Tuckett, Christopher

Verheyden, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Östliche & Orientalische Orthodoxe Kirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Neues Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Apokryphen, Pseudepigraphen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Title Page;4
2;Copyright;5
3;Table of Contents;6
4;Foreword;12
5;Christoph Markschies (Humboldt University Berlin) | Models of the Relation between “Apocrypha” and “Orthodoxy”;14
6;Tobias Nicklas (University of Regensburg) | Beyond “Canon”;24
7;Ismo Dunderberg (University of Helsinki) | Recognizing the Valentinians – now and then;40
8;Petri Luomanen (University of Helsinki) | The Nazarenes: Orthodox Heretics with an Apocryphal Canonical Gospel?;56
9;Reidar Aasgaard (University of Oslo) | The Protevangelium of James and the Infancy Gospel of Thomas: Orthodoxy from Above or Heterodoxy from Below?;76
10;Meghan Henning (University of Dayton, Ohio) | Lacerated Lips and Lush Landscapes: Constructing This-Worldly Theological Identities in the Otherworld;100
11;Judith Hartenstein (University of Koblenz-Landau) | Wie „apokryph“ ist das Evangelium nach Maria?;118
12;Jens Schröter (Humboldt University Berlin) | The Figure of Seth in Jewish and Early Christian Writings;136
13;Christopher Tuckett (University of Oxford) | What’s in a Name? How “apocryphal” are the “apocryphal gospels”?;150
14;Candida R. Moss (University of Notre Dame) | Notions of Orthodoxy in Early Christian Martyrdom Literature;166
15;Jacques van der Vliet (Leiden University/Radboud University Nijmegen) | The embroidered garment: Egyptian perspectives on ‘apocryphity’ and ‘orthodoxy’;178
16;Jan Dochhorn (University of Durham) | Menschenschöpfung und urzeitlicher Teufelsfall in Überlieferungen der Falascha;194
17;Basil Lourié (St. Petersburg) | Slavonic Pseudepigrapha, Nubia, and the Syrians;226
18;John Carey (University College Cork, Ireland) | The Reception of Apocryphal Texts in Medieval Ireland;252
19;Body;12

Über Autor(innen)

Nicklas, Tobias
Dr. theol. Tobias Nicklas ist Professor für Exegese und Hermeneutik des Neuen Testaments an der Katholisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Regensburg.

Moss, Candida R.
Candida R. Moss, Ph.D., is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity Biblical Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Verheyden, Joseph
Dr. theol. Joseph Verheyden ist Professor für Neues Testament an der Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Leuven.