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Peter is a fascinating character in all four canonical gospels, not
only as a literary figure in each of the gospels respectively, but
also when looked at from an intertextual perspective. This book
examines how Peter is rewritten for each of the gospels, positing
that the different portrayals of this crucial figure reflect not
only the theological priorities of each gospel author, but also
their attitude towards their predecessors. Rewriting Peter as an
Intertextual Character in the Canonical Gospels is the first
critical study of the canonical gospels which is based on Markan
priority, Luke's use of Mark and Matthew, and John's use of all
three synoptic gospels. Through a selection of close readings,
Damgaard both provides a new critical portrait of Peter and
proposes a new theory of source and redaction in the gospels. In
the last thirty years there has been an increasing appreciation of
the gospels' literary design and of the gospel writers as authors
and innovators rather than merely compilers and transmitters.
However, literary critics have tended to read each gospel
individually as if they were written for isolated communities. This
book reconsiders the relationship between the gospels, arguing that
the works were composed for a general audience and that the writers
were bold and creative interpreters of the tradition they inherited
from earlier gospel sources. Damgaard's view that the gospel
authors were familiar with the work of their predecessors, and that
the divergences between their narratives were deliberate, sheds new
light on their intentions and has a tremendous impact on our
understanding of the gospels.
Peter is a fascinating character in all four canonical gospels, not
only as a literary figure in each of the gospels respectively, but
also when looked at from an intertextual perspective. This book
examines how Peter is rewritten for each of the gospels, positing
that the different portrayals of this crucial figure reflect not
only the theological priorities of each gospel author, but also
their attitude towards their predecessors. Rewriting Peter as an
Intertextual Character in the Canonical Gospels is the first
critical study of the canonical gospels which is based on Markan
priority, Luke's use of Mark and Matthew, and John's use of all
three synoptic gospels. Through a selection of close readings,
Damgaard both provides a new critical portrait of Peter and
proposes a new theory of source and redaction in the gospels. In
the last thirty years there has been an increasing appreciation of
the gospels' literary design and of the gospel writers as authors
and innovators rather than merely compilers and transmitters.
However, literary critics have tended to read each gospel
individually as if they were written for isolated communities. This
book reconsiders the relationship between the gospels, arguing that
the works were composed for a general audience and that the writers
were bold and creative interpreters of the tradition they inherited
from earlier gospel sources. Damgaard's view that the gospel
authors were familiar with the work of their predecessors, and that
the divergences between their narratives were deliberate, sheds new
light on their intentions and has a tremendous impact on our
understanding of the gospels.
Eusebius of Caesarea was one of the most significant and voluminous
contributors to the development of late antique literary culture.
Despite his significance, Eusebius has tended to receive attention
more as a source for histories of early Christianity and the
Constantinian empire than as a writer and thinker in his own right.
He was a compiler and copyist of pagan and Christian texts,
collator of a massive chronographical work, commentator on
scriptural texts, author of apologetic, historical, educational,
and biographical works, and custodian of one of the greatest
libraries in the ancient world. As such, Eusebius merits a primary
place in our appreciation of the literary culture of late antiquity
for both his self-conscious conveyance of multiple traditions and
his fostering of innovative literary and intellectual trajectories.
By focusing on the full range of Eusebius's literary corpus, the
collection of essays in Eusebius of Caesarea offers new and
innovative studies that will change the ways classicists,
theologians, and ancient historians think about this major figure.
The political and social changes that occurred with the
transformation of the Roman Empire into a Roman Christian Empire
and with the bishops' new social position as imperial bishops
called for new literary representations of the ideal Christian
leader. In this struggle, the figure of Moses turned up as a
suitable figure intimately connected with questions of authority
and power and, related to this, with the risk of dissension and
discord. While the portrait of Moses as a political figure was
hardly applicable in Christian discourses of the 2nd and 3rd
centuries, it became the centre of interest during the 4th century.
This new emphasis was, however, no more new than that it actually
revived traditions of 1st-century Jewish biographical and
autobiographical narratives.
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