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Broaden the scope of your New Testament studies with this
introduction to early Christian apocryphal literature. To
understand the New Testament well, it is important to study the
larger world surrounding it, and one of the primary avenues for
this exploration is through reading related ancient texts. But this
task is daunting for scholars and novices alike given the sheer
size of the ancient literary corpora. The Ancient Literature for
New Testament Studies series aims to bridge this gap by introducing
the key ancient texts that form the cultural, historical, and
literary context for the study of the New Testament. Early New
Testament Apocrypha offers an entry point into the corpus of early
Christian apocryphal literature through twenty-eight texts or
groups of texts. While the majority of the texts fall within the
first four centuries CE, and therefore are useful for uncovering
the earliest interpretations assigned to the New Testament, select
later texts serve as reminders of how the meanings of New Testament
texts continued to develop in subsequent centuries. Each essay
covers introductory matters, a summary of content, interpretive
issues, key passages for New Testament studies and their
significance, and a select bibliography. Whether you are a scholar
looking to familiarize yourself with a new corpus of texts or a
novice seeking to undertake a serious contextualized study of the
New Testament, this is an ideal reference work for you. Essays and
contributors include: Part 1: Apocryphal Gospels Agrapha, Andrew
Gregory Fragments of Gospels on Papyrus, Tobias Nicklas Gospel of
Barnabas, Philip Jenkins Gospel of Peter, Paul Foster Infancy
Gospel of Thomas, Reidar Aasgaard Jewish-Christian Gospels, Petri
Luomanen Legend of Aphroditian, Katharina Heyden Pilate Cycle, J.
K. Elliott Protevangelium of James, Eric M. Vanden Eykel Toledot
Yeshu, Sarit Kattan Gribetz Revelation of the Magi, Catherine
Playoust Part 2: Apocryphal Acts Acts of Andrew, Nathan C. Johnson
Acts of John, Harold W. Attridge Acts of Paul, Harold W. Attridge
Acts of Peter, Robert F. Stoops, Jr. Acts of Philip, Christopher R.
Matthews Acts of Thomas, Harold W. Attridge Departure of My Lady
Mary from This World (Six Books Dormition Apocryphon), J.
Christopher Edwards Pseudo-Clementines, F. Stanley Jones Part 3:
Apocryphal Epistles Jesus's Letter to Abgar, William Adler
Correspondence of Paul and Seneca, Andrew Gregory Epistle to the
Laodiceans, Philip L. Tite Epistula Apostolorum, Florence
Gantenbein The Sunday Letter, Jon C. Laansma Part 4: Apocryphal
Apocalypses Apocalypse of Paul, Jan N. Bremmer Apocalypse of Peter
(Greek), Dan Batovici Apocalypse of Thomas, Mary Julia Jett 1
Apocryphal Apocalypse of John, Robyn J. Whitaker New Testament
Apocrypha: Introduction and Critique of a Modern Category, Dale B.
Martin SERIES DESCRIPTION: Ancient Literature for New Testament
Studies is a 10-volume series that introduces key ancient texts
that form the cultural, historical, and literary context for the
study of the New Testament. Each volume features introductory
essays to the corpus, followed by articles on the relevant texts.
Each article will address introductory matters, provenance, summary
of content, interpretive issues, key passages for New Testament
studies and their significance, and a select bibliography. Neither
too technical to be used by students nor too thin on interpretive
information to be useful for serious study of the New Testament,
this series provides a much-needed resource for understanding the
New Testament in its Jewish, Greco-Roman, and early Christian
contexts. Produced by an international team of leading experts in
each corpus, Ancient Literature for New Testament Studies stands to
become the standard resource for both scholars and students.
In this new English language translation of Den okande Jesus (The
Unknown Jesus), Cecilia Wassen and Tobias Hagerland consider Jesus
as an apocalyptic prophetic figure within the context of
first-century Judaism and reconstruct the life of Jesus from his
birth to his death, with a focus on understanding him in the
context of his own time and place. Engaging critically with the
sources, they examine Jesus' life in order of events and draw
together the threads of scholarly discussion on the history,
archaeology and geography of first-century Galilee, forming a
complete picture of Jesus' world suitable for non-specialists and
university students. Wassen and Hagerland provide a strictly
historical reconstruction, distinguishing between the rhetorical
aims of the New Testament texts and the information about the past
that these texts contain. They enhance the texts surrounding Jesus
in the context of first-century Galilee with historical and
archaeological reflections and discussion, including penetrating
insights from the Dead Sea Scrolls. Illustrated throughout with
photographs taken by the authors specifically to offer insights
into the world of Jesus and the New Testament writings, Jesus the
Apocalyptic Prophet provides a deeply informed introduction to
Jesus in his first-century context.
In this new English language translation of Den okände Jesus (The
Unknown Jesus), Cecilia Wassén and Tobias Hägerland consider
Jesus as an apocalyptic prophetic figure within the context of
first-century Judaism and reconstruct the life of Jesus from his
birth to his death, with a focus on understanding him in the
context of his own time and place. Engaging critically with the
sources, they examine Jesus’ life in order of events and draw
together the threads of scholarly discussion on the history,
archaeology and geography of first-century Galilee, forming a
complete picture of Jesus' world suitable for non-specialists and
university students. Wassén and Hägerland provide a strictly
historical reconstruction, distinguishing between the rhetorical
aims of the New Testament texts and the information about the past
that these texts contain. They enhance the texts surrounding Jesus
in the context of first-century Galilee with historical and
archaeological reflections and discussion, including penetrating
insights from the Dead Sea Scrolls. Illustrated throughout with
photographs taken by the authors specifically to offer insights
into the world of Jesus and the New Testament writings, Jesus the
Apocalyptic Prophet provides a deeply informed introduction to
Jesus in his first-century context.
Covering the period from 200 BCE to 600 CE, this book describes
important aspects of identity formation processes within early
Judaism and Christianity, and shows how negotiations involving
issues of ethnicity, stereotyping, purity, commensality, and
institution building contributed to the forming of group
identities. Over time, some of these Jewish group identities
evolved into non-Jewish Christian identities, others into a
rabbinic Jewish identity, while yet others remained somewhere in
between. The contributors to this volume trace these developments
in archaeological remains as well as in texts from the Qumran
movement, the New Testament and the reception of Paul's writings,
rabbinic literature, and apocryphal and pseudepigraphical writings,
such as the Book of Dreams and the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies. The
long timespan covered in the volume together with the combined
expertise of scholars from various fields make this book a unique
contribution to research on group identity, Jewish and Christian
identity formation, the Partings-of-the-ways between Judaism and
Christianity, and interactions between Jews and Christians.
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