Redrawing the boundaries : the date of early Christian literature / J.V.M. Sturdy ; edited by Jonathan Knight.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sturdy, John.

Contributor:

Knight, Jonathan.

Series:

Bible world (London, England)

BibleWorld

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Robinson, John A. T. (John Arthur Thomas), 1919-1983. Redating the New Testament.

Robinson, John A. T.

Bible. New Testament--Authorship--Date of authorship.

Bible.

Christian literature, Early--History and criticism.

Christian literature, Early.

Manuscript dating.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (179 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub. Ltd, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

John Sturdy's unfinished book was conceived as a reply to John Robinson's Redating the New Testament, published in 1975. The once-liberal Bishop of Woolwich took a much too conservative stand towards the end of his life, Sturdy believed, when it came to dating the New Testament literature. Where Robinson tended to date all the New Testament material very early, Sturdy took a much more radical view which began from the attempt to examine the so-called "fixed points" of New Testament scholarship. Sturdy came to a view which saw the genuine Pauline letters as in places interpolated; regarded Colo

Contents:

The problem posed

1 Clement

The letters of Ignatius

Polycarp

Early Christian literature : some parameters of date

The relationship of the Synoptic Gospels

Mark

Luke

Matthew

Acts

The Pauline corpus : its growth and development

The Catholic Epistles

Johannine literature

Summary and conclusions.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [95]-145) and indexes.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-71106-0

1-317-49082-7

9781315711065

OCLC:

742332785