The Other Side Apocryphal Perspectives on Ancient Christian Orthodoxies 1st Edition by Tobias Nicklas, Candida R Moss, Christopher Tuckett, Joseph Verheyden ISBN 3647540587 9783647540580

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ISBN 10: 3647540587

ISBN 13: 9783647540580 

Author:  Tobias Nicklas, Candida R. Moss, Christopher Tuckett, Joseph Verheyden 

Anyone who wishes to manage their sources adequately must work with categories that help to bring order to the transcribed material. In many cases, such categories simultaneously shape the way in which we evaluate our sources. Critical reflection of the chosen categories is therefore crucial for robust historical study. This rings especially true when certain categories are not viewed through neutral eyes, but through polemically judgemental eyes. One extreme case would be the category of “apocryphalness”. In some areas, associations like “fraudulent” versus and “secret” – interlinked to this term in Antiquity – are still shaping the way Christian apocrypha are considered to this day. Closely associated with this is the use of the adjectival categories like “(proto)-orthodox”, “majority church” versus those like “heretical” (again polemically pejorative). In their chapters, the contributors demonstrate not only how the set limits – as referred to the categories above – do indeed play a role, but more importantly, where these limits have been exceeded and where we must therefore work with new and different categories to understand the meaning of “apocryphal” writings and/or writings that have “become apocryphal” in terms of the history of an ancient Christianity perceived as multi-dimensional and dynamic. The following questions play a significant role in our understanding of this: In which contexts and by which groups are “newly apocryphal” writings used? Where do apocryphal writings or those “newly apocryphal” play a contextual role that would, nowadays, be perceived as “orthodox”? Which functions are assign thereto?

Table of contents:

1. Foreword

2. Models of the Relation between Apocrypha and Orthodoxy

3. Beyond Canon

4. Recognizing the Valentinians Now and Then

5. Orthodox Heretics with an Apocryphal Canonical Gospel?

6. Orthodoxy from Above or Heterodoxy from Below?

7. Constructing This-Worldly Theological Identities in the Otherworld

8. Wie apokryph ist das Evangelium nach Maria?

9. The Figure of Seth in Jewish and Early Christian Writings

10. What’s in a Name? How Apocryphal Are the Apocryphal Gospels?

11. Notions of Orthodoxy in Early Christian Martyrdom Literature

12. Egyptian Perspectives on Apocryphity and Orthodoxy

13. Menschenschöpfung und urzeitlicher Teufelsfall in Überlieferungen der Falascha

14. Slavonic Pseudepigrapha, Nubia and the Syrians

15. The Reception of Apocryphal Texts in Medieval Ireland

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