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.
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| Introduction: The Reception and Interpretation of the Bible in Late Antiquity |
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| Congratulatory Letter |
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The Most Reverend and Right Honourable |
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The Novelty and Inescapability of the Bible in Late Antiquity |
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«Car mes iniquites depasserent ma tete»: Les fonctions du texte biblique dans la section katanyktique du Logos Asketikos de Maxime le Confesseur |
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What Makes Exegesis either Christian or Jewish? |
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Augustine and the Ethics of Reading the Bible |
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Appeals to Jesus and the One `Who Heals Every Illness and Every Infirmity' (Matt 4:23, 9:35) in Amulets in Late Antiquity |
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Le commentaire au 4e siecle ou, pour reformuler le dicton, anciennete a-t-elle toujours autorite? |
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Completing the Gospel: The Infancy Gospel of Thomas as a Supplement to the Gospel of Luke |
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Good Tree, Bad Tree: The Matthean/Lukan Paradigm in Manichaeism and Its Opponents |
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Biblical Form, Function, and Genre in the Post-Biblical Historical Apocalyptica |
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The Reception and Interpretation of Paul in Late Antiquity: 1 Corinthians 7 and the Ascetic Debates |
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The Eternal Gospel: Origen's Eschatological Exegesis |
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Making the Imperfect Perfect: The Adaptation of Hebrews 11 in the 9th Memra of the Syriac Book of Steps |
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Les Homelies sur I' Evangile de Luc de Titus de Bostra |
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Hearing Love's Language: The Letter of the Text in Origen's Commentary on the Song of Songs |
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The Early Rabbinic Refashioning of Biblical Heilsgeschichte, the Fashioning of the Rabbinic Canon of Scriptures, and the Formation of the Early Rabbinic Movement |
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`Tα τivωv αρα ρηματα θεoλoγεi?:The Exegetical Relationship between Athanasius' Orationes contra Arianos I-III and Marcellus of Ancyra's Contra Asterium |
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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) |
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Scripture for a Life of Perfection. The Bible in Late Antique Monasticism: The Case of Palestine |
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Separating Light from Darkness: Manichaean Use of Biblical Traditions in the Kephalaia |
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The Reception of Early Christian Texts and Traditions in Late Antiquity Apocryphal Literature |
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Methods of Early Rabbinic Biblical Exegesis |
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Pseudepigraphy, Authorship, and the Reception of `the Bible' in Late Antiquity |
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Between Scripture and Tradition: The Marian Apocrypha of Early Christianity |
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Gregory of Nyssa's Biblical Hermeneutics in De opificio hominis |
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Scripture as a Legacy of the Fathers |
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| Bibliography of the Works of Charles Kannengiesser |
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| Index of Ancient Sources |
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| Index of Modern Authors |
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| Compiled by Eric Cregheur |
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Lorenzo DiTommaso (Ph.D. in Religion, McMaster University, 2002) is Assistant Professor at Concordia University, Montréal. Among his other books are The Dead Sea New Jerusalem Text (Mohr Siebeck, 2005) and The Book of Daniel and the Apocryphal Daniel Literature (Brill, 2005). Lucian Turcescu (Ph.D. in Theology, University of Toronto, 1999) is Associate Professor at Concordia University, Montréal, and President of the Canadian Society of Patristic Studies. He has written on Greek patristics, including Gregory of Nyssa and The Concept of Divine Persons (Oxford University Press, 2005), as well as religion and politics. Contributors include: Pablo Argárate, Herbert W. Basser, Pamela Bright, Theodore de Bruyn, Marie-Pierre Bussières, Tony Chartrand-Burke, J. Kevin Coyle, Lorenzo DiTommaso, David G. Hunter, Shawn W.J. Keough, Robert A. Kitchen, Jean-Michel Lavoie, Paul-Hubert Poirier, Thomas S. Schmidt, Richard A. Layton, Jack N. Lightstone, Sara Parvis, Anne Pasquier, Lorenzo Perrone, Timothy Pettipiece, Pierluigi Piovanelli, Gary G. Porton, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Stephen J. Shoemaker, Lucian Turcescu, Robert Louis Wilken, and Charles Kannengiesser
