Infancy Gospels
Subtitle: stories and identities
By: edited by Claire Clivaz, Andreas Dettwiler, Luc Devillers and Enrico Norelli ; with the assistance of Benjamin Bertho
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum neuen Testament -- 281; Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 281.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng; fre; ger
Number of pages: 755
ISBN-13: 9783161508332
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Nativity; Congresses; Infancy narratives (Gospels)
Description: Even though the canonical Jesus' infancy stories have always provoked great interest in popular culture and in the arts, they have been neglected in research during the last decades due to the relatively late date of their redaction. Since the monograph by Raymond Brown, The Birth of the Messiah , the researchers working on this topic have not attempted to consider its historical impact. In this volume, an international team of scholars proposes firstly a reconsideration of the historical background of these stories in terms of early Jewish and Christian identity quests. Secondly, they deal with early Christian questions on Jesus' infancy and childhood through canonical and apocryphal Gospels including information from Patristic and documentary literature. On the theological level, this volume illustrates the impact that these apocryphal texts, recognized as "useful for the soul" (a phrase coined by Franc̜ois Bovon), have had on the Christian faith.
Notes: Papers from conferences held autumn 2010, Lausanne, Fribourg and Geneva.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Divine fathers, virgin mothers and founding children : Italic myths about conception and birth  -- Francesca Prescendi; title: Les Evangiles canoniques de l'enfance et les récits d'enfance intertestamentaires  -- Christian Grappe; title: La virginité de Marie : entre textes et contextes (Ier-IIe siècles)  -- Simon Claude Mimouni; title: Les plus anciennes traditions sur la naissance de Jésus et leur rapport avec les testimonia  -- Enrico Norelli; title: Jesus' family and their genealogy according to the testimony of Julius Africanus  -- Christophe Guignard; title: The cultural structure of the infancy narrative in the Gospel of Matthew  -- Adriana Destro & Mauro Pesce; title: The Matthean reading of Isaiah 7.14 and the Midrash of ancient rabbis  -- José Costa; title: Creating difference thorugh parallelism : Luke's handling of the traditions on John the Baptist and Jesus in the infancy narrative  -- Joseph Verheyden; title: Beyond the category of "proto-orthodox Christianity" : an enquiry into the multivalence of Lk 1.35 -- Claire Clivaz; title: How could Mark and John do without infancy stories? Jesus' humanity and His divine origins in Mark and John  -- Jörg Frey; title: The genealogies of Jesus in Tatian's Diatessaron : the question of their absence or presence : a response to J. Frey  -- David Pastorelli; title: Subversive Erinnerung : feministisch-kritische Lektüre von Mt 1-2 und Lk 1-2  -- Andrea Taschl-Erber; title: Matthew 1-2 and the problem of intertextuality  -- Moisés Mayordomo; title: Enjeux ecclésiologiques de Matthieu 1-2 : approche historique et narrative  -- Elian Cuvillier; title: Giving birth to Jesus in the late first century : Matthew as midwife in the context of colonisation  -- Anders Runesson; title: Lk 1-2 : Auftakt einer tragischen Geschichte? Christliche Identität im Gespräch mit Israel  -- Simon Butticaz; title: The infancy of Jesus and the infancy of the church : from the canticles (Luke 1-2) to the summaries (Acts 1-7)  -- Luc Devillers; title: D'une identité à l'autre : Le Magnificat, le Benedictus, le Gloria et le Nunc dimittis dans le rôle de passeurs  -- Daniel Gerber; title: God as father in the infancy gospels (Matt 1 and 2, Luke 1 and 2) -- Benedict Viviano; title: Ways to survival for the infancy apocrypha  -- Sever J. Voicu; title: "Let us bring her up to the Temple of the Lord" : exploring the boundaries of Jewish and Christian relations though the Presentation of Mary in the Protevangelium of James  -- Lily Vuong; title: Les Paidika Iesou, un nouveau témoin de la rencontre entre judaïsme et christianisme à Antioche au IVe siècle?  -- Frédéric Amsler; title: Die sogenannte "Kindheitserzählung des Thomas" : Überlegungen zur Darstellung Jesu als Kind, deren Intention und Rezeption  -- Ursula Ulrike Kaiser; title: Rereading the rewriting of the biblical traditions in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas (Paidika)  -- Geert van Oyen; title: Mapping an unexplored second cenutry apocryphal gospel : the Liber de Nativitate Salvatoris (CANT 53)  -- Jean-Daniel Kaestli; title: Les récits apocryphes de l'enfance dans la tradition arménienne  -- Valentina Calzolari; title: Jesus and his mother in the Jewish anti-gospel (the Toledot Yeshu)  -- Philip Alexander; title: Voltaire and the Toledoth Yeshu : a response to Philip Alexander  -- Daniel Barbu; title: "False" and "true" infancy and apocryphal gospels in the century of Voltaire -- François Rosset.