Jewish-Christian interpretation of the Pentateuch in the Pseudo-Clementine homilies
By: Donald H. Carlson
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780800699772; 9781451469677
Subjects: Greek authors; Bible; Criticism, interpretation; History and criticism; Homilies (Pseudo-Clementine); Early Christian literature; History
Description: "The Pseudo-Clementine writings are one of the most intriguing and valuable sources for early Jewish Christianity. They offer a second- or third-century polemic against the form of Christianity that eventually won out, the Gentile-majority, law-free Christianity that took Paul as its champion. Carlson's interest here is in the highly unusual theory expressed in the Homilies that the Pentateuch is saturated with "false pericopes," and that the teaching of Jesus, the "true prophet," is the criterion for establishing what the Pentateuch really means"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-239) and indexes.

Text in English; some quotations in Greek.
Table of contents: title: Abbreviations; title: Overview of previous scholarship; title: The rejection of allegorism; title: The theory of the false pericopes; title: The true prophet's teaching as an exegetical criterion; title: Oral tradition as an exegetical criterion; title: The harmony criterion; title: Summary and conclusion; title: Bibliography; title: Index of names and subjects; title: Index of Greek terms; title: Index of ancient sources.