The Christian Moses : from Philo to the Qur'ân / edited by Philip Rousseau and Janet A. Timbie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Timbie, Janet, editor.

Rousseau, Philip, editor.

Series:

CUA studies in early Christianity.

CUA studies in early Christianity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moses (Biblical leader).

Moses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 316 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : Catholic University of America Press, [2019]

Summary:

As it developed an increasingly distinctive character of its own during the first six centuries of the common era, Christianity was constantly forced to reassess and adapt its relationship with the Jewish tradition.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

List of Abbreviations

1. Moses and Jesus against the Pharisees: Mark and Paul on Moses (Daniel Boyarin)

2. Luke's Narrative Claim on Moses, the Persecuted Prophet (Dulcinea Boesenberg)

3. The Pauline Moses at Corinth: Indications of a Transformation (Emmanuel Nathan)

4. Following Paul, Following Moses: Moses as Exemplar in Clement of Rome's Letter to the Corinthians (Virginia Wayland)

5. "A Servant in God's House": Competing Roles of Moses in 1 Clement and the Epistle to the Hebrews (David A. Smith)

6. The Making of a Classic: Moses as Author (Richard A. Layton)

7. Right Reasoning and the Interpretation of the Mosaic Law in Clement of Alexandria (Kathleen Gibbons)

8. Eusebius's Moses: Hebrew, Jew, and Christian (Michael Hollerich)

9. The Ascetic Leader in Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Moses (Ellen Muehlberger)

10. Moses Ascends to Heaven: Gregory of Nyssa's Tabernacle Imagery in Life of Moses 2.170-201 (Ann Conway-Jones)

11. Moses and the Christian "New Moses" in Early Christian Funerary Art (Robin M. Jensen)

12. Moses at Sinai: From Aphrahat to Rabbula (Naomi Koltun-Fromm)

13. Against the Manichaean Moses: Augustine on Moses and Scripture (Paula Fredriksen)

14. Moses the Metonym: Cyril of Alexandria on the Law's Self-Critique (Lee Blackburn)

15. Between Individual and Prototype: Moses in Late Antique Latin Christian Epic (Michael Müller)

16. Discipline and Mercy: Moses as a Pattern for Good Rulers in the Works of Pope Gregory the Great (Vadim Prozorov)

17. Moses at the Margins of Space and Time (John C. Reeves)

General Bibliography

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-8132-3192-2

OCLC:

1112424967