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Performing Early Christian Literature
2021Scholars of early Christian literature acknowledge that oral traditions lie behind the New Testament gospels. While the concept of orality is widely accepted, it has not resulted in a corresponding effort to understand the reception of the gospels within their oral milieu.
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2020
The aetiological formulae observed throughout Greek and Roman antiquity remain well and alive even beyond the transition from Classical to Christian antiquity. In Prudentius’ Peristephanon 2, the aetion around which the poem is centred provides the site for the conversion of the poem itself and its turn towards heaven, but it no longer establishes an ...
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The aetiological formulae observed throughout Greek and Roman antiquity remain well and alive even beyond the transition from Classical to Christian antiquity. In Prudentius’ Peristephanon 2, the aetion around which the poem is centred provides the site for the conversion of the poem itself and its turn towards heaven, but it no longer establishes an ...
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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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Lions in Early Christian Literature
1998Bible dictionaries give references to the danger that lions posed to human beings and their flocks. Note that the roar of the lion is so terrifying that it can be compared with the voice of God. Evidence for the Christian story finally appears in two papyrus fragments of the Acts of Paul .
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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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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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The Origins of Early Christian Literature
2021Conventional approaches to the Synoptic gospels argue that the gospel authors acted as literate spokespersons for their religious communities. Whether described as documenting intra-group 'oral traditions' or preserving the collective perspectives of their fellow Christ-followers, these writers are treated as something akin to the Romantic poet ...
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