Extracanonical Traditions and the Holy Land
Texts, Rituals, and Material Culture in Late Antique Palestine
With Andrea Ackermann With Charlotte von Schelling Edited by Harald Buchinger Edited by Laura S. Lieber Edited by Andreas Merkt Edited by Tobias Nicklas
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(June 2026)
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What we know as the Holy Land is not merely the biblical land. The contributions to this volume demonstrate how it – perhaps even more than through biblical texts – was created by extracanonical traditions of texts, rituals, and material culture.
The Holy Land is more than a sanctified geographical space that roughly corresponds to the Roman province that has been known as Palaestina since the end of the Bar Kochba War. Instead, it is primarily an idea and imaginative space created by a complex interaction of texts, rituals, and material culture. The authors of this volume’s contributions highlight the major role that extracanonical traditions – often misleadingly called apocryphal – which were written and read, celebrated and performed, and embodied in places, buildings, and material culture, have played in the construction of the Holy Land.
Harald Buchinger, Andreas Merkt, and Tobias Nicklas : Preface
Harald Buchinger: Extracanonical Traditions as Heterotopias in Stational Liturgy.
Ritual, Material Culture, and Lived Religion in Late Antique Jerusalem - Ora Limor: Extra-Canonical Holy Places and Their Fate - Andreas Merkt: Fool on the Hill? Peter on the Holy Mountain. The Interaction of Literature, Liturgy, and Material Culture in the Transfiguration Tradition and the Paradoxes of Material Religion
Tony Burke: Apocryphal Nazareth: The Childhood Home of Jesus in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas - Jan Dochhorn: Golgotha und die älteren Traditionen vom Adamgrab - Lorne Zelyck: Jericho Traditions in Early Christian Literature - Oded Irshai and Osnat Rance: Holy Cartography Engraved with Blood: A Historical Appraisal of Eusebius of Caesarea's Martyrs of Palestine - Christoph Markschies: The Holy Land in the Appendages to Antique Editions of the Canonical Gospels
Jean-Daniel Dubois: The Coptic Version of the Acta Pilati - Jörg Frey: James, the Hero of Jewish-Christianity - Stephen J. Shoemaker: Mary between Bible and Qur'an: Apocrypha, Archaeology, and the Memory of Mary in Late Ancient Palestine - Mari Mamyan: The "Jews" in the Armenian Gospel of the Infancy - Günter Stemberger: David in Rabbinic Tradition
Jan N. Bremmer: Epilogue: Extracanonical Traditions and the Holy Land
- With Andrea Ackermann
- With Charlotte von Schelling
- Edited by Harald Buchinger
- Edited by Laura S. Lieber
- Edited by Andreas Merkt
- Edited by Tobias Nicklas
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