Christian Apocrypha

Receptions of the New Testament in Ancient Christian Apocrypha

edited by Jean-Michel Roessli and Tobias Nicklas

Book cover: Christian Apocrypha

Extent: 352 pages

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Subjects: Asian/Pacific Studies & Religions, Biblical Studies

Series: Novum Testamentum Patristicum

Series volume number: 26

Language: English

Hardback (Out of print)

(July 2014)

ISBN: 9783525540169

Price: $127.00

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In very different ways, the writings of the New Testament have shaped cultures until today. The Novum Testamentum Patristicum project will give a full documentation of ancient Christian receptions of the New Testament in late antiquity. This volume focuses on the different mainly narrative receptions of New Testament texts in ancient Christian apocryphal literature. While it has been accepted for a long time that apocryphal writings mainly wanted to fill the gaps of New Testament texts in more or less fantastic ways, the articles in this volume discover a rich and very different variety of re-writings, relectures, and receptions of New Testament texts, motifs and ideas.

  • Edited by Tobias Nicklas
  • Edited by Jean-Michel Roessli