The pseudo-Clementine tradition : the hermeneutics of late-ancient Sophistic Christianity / Benjamin M.J. De Vos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vos, Benjamin M. J. de, 1994- author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in early Christian literature

Cambridge elements. Elements in early Christian literature, 2977-0327

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homilies (Pseudo-Clementine).

Recognitiones (Pseudo-Clementine).

Christian literature, Early--Greek authors--History and criticism.

Christian literature, Early.

Sophists (Greek philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (93 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"This Element, through detailed example, scrutinizes the exact nature of Christian storytelling in the case of the Greek Pseudo-Clementines, or Klementia, and examines what exactly is involved in the correct interpretation of this Christian prose fiction as a redefined pepaideumenos. In the act of such reconsideration of paideia, Greek cultural capital, and the accompanying reflections on prose literature and fiction, it becomes clear that the Klementinist exploits certain cases of intertextual and meta-literary reflections on the Greek novelistic fiction, such as Chariton's Chaereas and Callirhoe and Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Cleitophon, in order to evoke these reconsiderations of storytelling, interpretive hermeneutics, and one's role as a culturally Greek reader pepaideumenos. This Element argues that the Klementia bears witness to a rich, dynamic, and Sophistic context in which reflections on paideia, dynamics regarding Greek identity, and literary production were neatly intertwined with reflections on reading and interpreting truth and fiction"-- Cambridge University Press.

Contents:

From Clement's distress...

... to scholarly distress : Our sincere apologies!

Objectives of this element

Klementia : Editions, translations, concordances

Earlier attitudes towards the Klementia as work of narrative prose

The fourth-century Klementinist

The Klementia as original Greek novelistic prose?

The process of Ἀφελληνισθῆναι (Aphellênisthênai)

Meta-literary tensions regarding Ἀφελληνισθῆναι (Aphellênisthênai) : How (not) to read as a Greek

The hermeneutics of the reader's identity : Ἀφελληνισθῆναι (Aphellénisthênai) as re-hellenization

Ἀφελληνισθῆναι (Aphellênisthênai) and the dynamics of sophistic Christianity

Some concluding reflections on future scholarship.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 25, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Vos, Benjamin M. J. de, 1994- Pseudo-Clementine tradition

ISBN:

9781009506694

1009506692

OCLC:

1531947129

Publisher Number:

CIPO000261302

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