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Peeters Publishers Texts in Context: Essays on Dating and Contextualising Christian Writings from the Second and Early Third Centuries
The essays collected in this volume contain the proceedings of a colloquium held in Leuven in December 2018. The overall purpose was to study Gnostic and other second- and early third-century Christian texts in search for indications and criteria for determining their place in the development of early Christian theology. A good deal of attention is given to dating and identifying these often anonymous writings, but other aspects are also addressed. The essays illustrate in various ways that this development was not a uniform process. The many problems involved in studying these texts from such a perspective have brought some scholars to question what should be the main focus: the (presumed) original context or their transmission and use by later generations. The collection includes essays by P. Foster (Ignatius), C.M. Tuckett (1-2 Clement(), J.S. Kloppenborg (the (Didache( and the (Apostolic Constitutions(), J. Frey (Jewish-Christian gospels, especially the (Gospel according to the Hebrews(), H. Lundhaug (methodology in studying Gnostic texts), C. Jacobi ((Gospel of Philip(), K. Schwarz (Gospel of Thomas), F. Watson ((Apocryphon of James(), J.-D. Dubois (criteria for dating Gnostic texts, applied to the (Apocryphon of John(), D.M. Burns (Nag Hammadi tractates with philosophical interests), and A. Van den Kerchove ((Gospel of Judas().
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Peeters Publishers The Apocryphal Gospels within the Context of Early Christian Theology
Recent scholarship has become increasingly aware of the significance of the apocryphal gospels for the transmission and interpretation of the Jesus tradition in the first three or four centuries. Against this background the 60th Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense was devoted to these texts and their role and status in the formation of the New Testament Canon. The present volume contains the proceedings of the conference. Some of its contributions deal with well-known apocryphal gospels as, e.g., the Gospels of Thomas, Mary, Peter or Judas. Other essays treat thematic aspects, such as the influence of Platonic tradition, the way Jesus is presented in these gospels, or his dialogues with his (male and female) disciples. Important facets of the present volume are also early traditions about Jesus, e.g., in the so-called Infancy Gospels or in texts on the Mary. The volume thus gives an extensive overview of important areas of current research on the apocryphal gospels within early Christian theology.
£122.33