Shadowy characters and fragmentary evidence : the search for early Christian groups and movements / edited by Joseph Verheyden, Tobias Nicklas, and Elisabeth Hernitscheck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Verheyden, Jozef, editor.

Nicklas, Tobias, editor.

Hernitscheck, Elisabeth, editor.

Series:

Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament ; 388.

Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 0512-1604 ; 388

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages).

Edition:

1. Aufl.

Place of Publication:

Tübingen, [Germany] : Mohr Siebeck, 2017.

Language Note:

Contributions in English and German.

Summary:

The present volume contains the proceedings of an international colloquium that dealt with heavily fragmented texts and hypothetical sources, and with the "shadowy" characters and movements featured in such texts. These two aspects are combined here and studied to see how they have been handled in the history of research, what they reveal about the community or the group expressing itself through (or hiding behind) them, and to ascertain the role these documents and figures or groups should be given in reconstructing an overall picture of developments in the theology and religious life of early Christianity. The essays contribute to the writing of a critical history of researching these types of documents and movements.

Contents:

Introduction / Joseph Verheyden

The community of Q / Christopher Tuckett

Elusive opponents in the Pastoral Epistles / Korinna Zamfir

Die Nikolaiten und die Gegnerfiktion in der Offenbarung des Johannes : eine Annäherung an einige hermeneutische Probleme der Apokalypselektüre / Michael Sommer

Fragmente christlicher Apokryphen und die Geschichte des frühen Christentums / Tobias Nicklas

Im trüben Wasser des "Davidsteichs" : P.Oxy. 840 und die Suche nach seiner Provenienz / Elisabeth Hernitscheck

Enthüllung im Fragment : Notizen zu Überlieferungsgestalt und Figureninventar der Offenbarung des Petrus / Wolfgang Grünstäudl

The Nazoraeans / Andrew Gregory

The Basilidians / Jean-Daniel Dubois

Revisiting those elusive Sethians / Johanna Brankaer

Jenseits der Kategorien : Elchasai und die Elchasaiten / Tobias Nicklas

Evaluating quotations in ancient Greek literature : the case of Heracleon's hypomnēmata / Carl Johan Berglund

(Re)constructing a Christian community through its poetry / Gianfranco Agosti.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 30, 2018).

ISBN:

3-16-155436-1