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Early Christian Apocryphal Literature
2009Abstract The apocryphal literature of early Christianity consists primarily of narrative traditions about the life and teaching of Jesus, his family, and his apostles, as well as letters, apocalyptic visions, and other-worldly journeys attributed to these individuals that fall outside the biblical canon.
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Music in Early Christian Literature
1987This book provides a collection of some 400 passages on music from early Christian literature - New Testament to c. 450 AD - newly translated from the original Greek, Latin, and Syriac. As there are no musical sources of the period, music historians must rely upon remarks about music in literary sources to gain some knowledge of early Christian ...
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Hermeneutic Problems in Early Christian Literature
Vigiliae Christianae, 1947Early Christian preachers and authors in their contact with the Hellenistic world were faced with the problem how to render the Jewish mode of thinking revealed in the Bible intelligible to outsiders. In the work of preaching the Gospel this problem even from the first contact with paganism was urgent.
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Literature, Patristics, Early Christian Writing
2009Abstract How does one distinguish more from less ‘literary’ texts of the early Christian centuries? What does ‘literary’ mean in such contexts? The failure to address these basic questions of language and method is a weakness of many contemporary scholarly treatments of early Christian literature and literary texts. Rather than propose a
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The Author in Early Christian Literature
While scholars of ancient Mediterranean literature have focused their efforts heavily on explaining why authors would write pseudonymously or anonymously, less time has been spent exploring why an author would write orthonymously (that is, under their own name).openaire +1 more source
Early Christian Georgian Literature
This Element re-evaluates the genesis and early development of Georgian literature. Sparked by the Christian invention of a Georgian script ca. 400 AD, this literature was a product of the Christianization of the Caucasus region. But to what extent was early Georgian literature a Christian one?openaire +1 more source
EARLY CHRISTIANITY AND EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE
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