Early Christian Epistolarity / edited by Judith M. Lieu and Matthijs den Dulk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dulk, Matthijs den, editor.

Lieu, Judith M., editor.

Series:

Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Critical Approaches to Early Christianity ; 5.

Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Critical Approaches to Early Christianity ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reformation texts with translation (1350-1650). Biblical studies.

Reformation texts with translation (1350-1650).

New Testament & Early Christian Writings.

Church history.

Classical Studies.

Early Church & Patristics.

Greek & Latin Literature.

History.

Religion in Antiquity.

Religious Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Many surviving early Christian writings are in the form of letters, some sent by and to those named, others imagined. What did the authors, copyists, and later collectors intend by authoring or reworking letters , as opposed to other genres? How did the first or subsequent readers respond, differently perhaps than to a novel or history? In her Radboud Prestige Lectures in New Testament, published in this volume, Judith Lieu explores these questions by drawing on the concept of ‘epistolarity.’ Her lectures are followed by chapters by leading experts in the field who engage her work from different angles, finding points of contact and potential conversation between different texts and authors, together with possibilities for further exploration and application.

Contents:

Front Cover

‎Half-Title Page

‎Series Title Page

‎Title Page

‎Copyright Page

‎Contents

‎Acknowledgements

‎Figures and Tables

‎Notes on Contributors

‎Chapter 1. Introduction (den Dulk)

‎Part 1

‎Chapter 2. The Rediscovery of Christian Epistolarity: From Paul to Eusebius (Lieu)

‎Chapter 3. Rewriting Time and Space: Absence and Presence (Lieu)

‎Chapter 4. Experiencing Relationships and Creating Networks (Lieu)

‎Part 2

‎Chapter 5. Paul in Letters: The Impact of Letter Collections on the Origin of Christian Epistolarity and the Question of the Historical Paul (Standhartinger)

‎Chapter 6. The Epistolary Shape of Epistemic and Noetic Thinking: Paul on Self-Cognition and Self-Knowledge (Becker)

‎Chapter 7. Time and Timelessness in Ignatius' Letters (van Henten)

‎Chapter 8. Remembering Ignatius: Letters as Processes of Christian Memory-Making (Concannon)

‎Chapter 9. Fashioning Allegiance and Dissent: Social Networks and the Letters of Cyprian of Carthage (Maier)

‎Chapter 10. Measuring and Simulating Early Clerical Social Relations: Quantitative Network Analysis and the Letters of Cyprian and Dionysius of Alexandria (Schor)

‎Chapter 11. How Letters Made History in Late Antiquity: Embedded Letters in Narratives of Classical and Christian Rome (Neil)

‎Chapter 12. Epistolary Networks: Transmission and Flux in Ancient Letter Collections (Given)

‎Chapter 13. Letters of Refuge: Early Christian Epistolography from Modern Calais to Ancient Gaul (Corke-Webster)

‎Chapter 14. Epilogue (Lieu)

‎Index of Ancient Sources

‎Index of Subjects

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-74885-7

9789004748859

OCLC:

1549521562

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004748859 DOI