Sacred Texts & Sacred Figures
The Reception and Use of Inherited Traditions in Early Christian Literature: A Festschrift in Honor of Edmondo F. Lupieri
Edited by Cambry G. Pardee Edited by Jeffrey M. Tripp
In tribute to the scholarly legacy of Edmondo F. Lupieri, in Sacred Texts, Sacred Figures an international group of esteemed biblical scholars offer essays on the ways religious traditions, texts, and even the legacies of notable figures were received, re-interpreted, and used by the authors of gospels, epistles, and apocalypses to address the ever-evolving circumstances of emerging Christianity. In the first and second century CE, oral and written traditions about the life of Jesus proliferated and formed the basis for written narratives. The authors of the gospels received and redacted those traditions to make distinctive theological claims about Jesus and to address their specific milieu and the wider movement of Jesus followers. Among some groups of Jesus-followers the sacred texts of Judaism remained paramount. Authors like that of the Epistle to the Hebrews re-examined their inheritance of Jewish scriptures in order to demonstrate the continuity of their novel claims about Jesus with the sacred texts and traditions of Judaism. Similarly, the authors of first- and second-century apocalypses drew on the heritage of Jewish apocalypticism to write and record new revelations of and about Jesus. In addition to traditions and texts, authors in the first and second centuries re-examined the legacy of significant Jewish figures and followers of Jesus and wrote about them in the context of their own contemporary circumstances. Using innovative strategies and written in an engaging style, the essays assembled here explore the reception and reinterpretation of sacred traditions, texts, and figures in the writings of early Christianity.
- Edited by Cambry G. Pardee
- Edited by Jeffrey M. Tripp
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Regards croises sur la pseudepigraphie dans l’Antiquite / Perspectives on Pseudepigraphy in Antiquity
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Texts, Practices, and Groups. Multidisciplinary approaches to the history of Jesus’ followers in the first two centuries
First Annual Meeting of Bertinoro (2-4 October 2014)
Volume 10
Les recits de la destruction de Jerusalem (70 ap. J.-C.)
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il dibattito sulla Sacra Scrittura tra III e VI secolo - Christians, Jews and Heathens: the Debate on the Holy Scripture between the Third and the Sixth Century
Volume 12
Du createur biblique au demiurge gnostique
Trajectoire et reception du motif du blaspheme de l'Archonte
Volume 15
Jewish-Christianity and the Origins of Islam
Papers presented at the Colloquium held in Washington DC, October 29-31, 2015 (8th ASMEA Conference)
Volume 13
L’invention du protomartyr Etienne
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Interpretative Issues in the Book of Revelation: Proceedings of the International Conference held at Loyola University, Chicago, March 30-31, 2017
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