The Reception and Interpretation of the Bible in Late Antiquity,9789004167155

The Reception and Interpretation of the Bible in Late Antiquity

by Ditommaso, Lorenzo; Turcescu, Lucian

ISBN13: 9789004167155

ISBN10: 9004167153

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Pub. Date: 2008-09-01

Publisher(s): Brill Academic Pub

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Summary

"The volume is a Festschrift offered to Charles Kannengiesser on the occasion of his 80th birthday and honours him for his numerous scholarly accomplishments. Its twenty-five contributions discuss some of the major issues pertaining to the reception and interpretation of the Bible in late antique Christianity and Judaism. They focus on the ways in which communities and individuals understood the Bible and interpreted its traditions to address their historical, social, and theological requirements. Since the Bible was by far the most important book during these centuries, a discussion of its influence in such contexts will illuminate significant aspects of the formation of western civilisation."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

The Reception and Interpretation of the Bible in Late Antiquity
Congratulatory Letter
The Novelty and Inescapability of the Bible in Late Antiquity	p. 3
<>: Les fonctions du texte biblique dans la section katanyktique du Logos Asketikos de Maxime le Confesseur	p. 17
What Makes Exegesis either Christian or Jewish?	p. 37
Augustine and the Ethics of Reading the Bible	p. 55
Appeals to Jesus and the One 'Who Heals Every Illness and Every Infirmity' (Matt 4:23, 9:35) in Amulets in Late Antiquity	p. 65
Le commentaire au 4[superscript c] siecle ou, pour reformuler le dicton, anciennete a-t-elle toujours autorite?	p. 83
Completing the Gospel: The Infancy Gospel of Thomas as a Supplement to the Gospel of Luke	p. 101
Good Tree, Bad Tree: The Matthean/Lukan Paradigm in Manichaeism and Its Opponents	p. 121
Biblical Form, Function, and Genre in the Post-Biblical Historical Apocalyptica	p. 145
The Reception and Interpretation of Paul in Late Antiquity: 1 Corinthians 7 and the Ascetic Debates	p. 163
The Eternal Gospel: Origen's Eschatological Exegesis	p. 193
Making the Imperfect Perfect: The Adaptation of Hebrews 11 in the 9th Memra of the Syriac Book of Steps	p. 227
Les Homelies sur l'Evangile de Luc de Titus de Bostra	p. 253
Hearing Love's Language: The Letter of the Text in Origen's Commentary on the Song of Songs	p. 287
The Early Rabbinic Refashioning of Biblical Heilsgeschichte, the Fashioning of the Rabbinic Canon of Scriptures, and the Formation of the Early Rabbinic Movement	p. 317
[actual symbol not reproducible]: The Exegetical Relationship between Athanasius' Orationes contra Arianos I-III and Marcellus of Ancyra's Contra Asterium	p. 337
Presupposes hermeneutiques de la lecture de la Bible juive chez les gnostiques. Etude de quelques procedes exegetiques dans un traite de Nag Hammadi (NH 2, 4)	p. 369
Scripture for a Life of Perfection. The Bible in Late Antique Monasticism: The Case of Palestine	p. 393
Separating Light from Darkness: Manichaean Use of Biblical Traditions in the Kephalaia	p. 419
The Reception of Early Christian Texts and Traditions in Late Antiquity Apocryphal Literature	p. 429
Methods of Early Rabbinic Biblical Exegesis	p. 441
Pseudepigraphy, Authorship, and the Reception of 'the Bible' in Late Antiquity	p. 467
Between Scripture and Tradition: The Marian Apocrypha of Early Christianity	p. 491
Gregory of Nyssa's Biblical Hermeneutics in De opificio hominis	p. 511
Scripture as a Legacy of the Fathers	p. 529
Bibliography of the Works of Charles Kannengiesser	p. 543
Index of Ancient Sources	p. 561
Index of Modern Authors	p. 599
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