Invention, rewriting, usurpation
Subtitle: discursive fights over religious traditions in Antiquity
By: Jörg Ulrich, Anders-Christian Jacobsen, David Brakke (eds.).
Series: Early Christianity in the context of antiquity -- v. 11; Early Christianity in the context of antiquity -- v. 11.
Publisher: Lang
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9783631635384
Subjects: Kulturwandel; Kanon; Frühjudentum; Church history; Bibel; Religiöser Wandel; Häresie; Innovation; Textual Criticism; Christianity and other religions; Primitive and early church; Schriftlichkeit; Christentum; Christianisierung; Rechtgläubigkeit; Congresses; Frühchristentum; Tradition; Early Christian literature
Notes: "Written versions of lectures presented and discussed at a conference of the same name held at Aarhus and Ebeltoft in Denmark from 31 May-4 June 2010"--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Invention, rewriting, usurpation : the case of the Johannine Gospel in the second century  -- Harold W. Attridge; title: From Athanasius to "Athanasius" : usurping a "Nicene hero" or, The making-of of the "Athanasian creed"  -- Christian Müller; title: Fido recubans sub tegmine Christi : rewriting as orthodoxy in the Epigrammata Damasiana  -- Marianne Sághy; title: Velamentum stultitiae: 1 Cor 1:20f. and 3:19 in Lactantius' Divine institutes  -- Gábor Kendeffy; title: An intertextual geography of cultural value : Flavius Josephus on the inland location of the Jewish people  -- Gunnar Haaland; title: Canon as Pharmakón : inside and outside discursive sanity in imperial Greek literature  -- Peter von Möllendorff; title: Tradition and innovation : the transformation of classical literary genres in Christian late antiquity  -- Karla Pollmann; title: An unworthy baptism revisited  -- Jennifer Hart; title: "Invention" and "maintenance" of religious traditions : theoretical and historical perspectives  -- Anders Klostergaard Petersen; title: Dimensions and developments of early Christian historiography  -- Jörg Ulrich; title: "Invented traditions" and "new traditions" in earliest Christianity  -- Oda Wischmeyer; title: What is heresy, and why did it matter?  -- Einar Thomassen; title: Bishop, Bible, creed : normative rules in the contest for "orthodoxy" and "heresy" in early Christianity  -- Uta Heil; title: Orthodoxy, authority and the (re-)construction of the past in church councils  -- Thomas Graumann; title: Shenoute's heresiological polemics and its context(s)  -- Hugo Lundhaug; title: Scriptural practices in early Christianity : towards a new history of the New Testament canon  -- David Brakke; title: Second Temple Jewish hermeneutics : how canon is not an anachronism  -- Stephen B. Chapman; title: "Be good moneychangers" : the role of the agraphon in a discursive fight for the canon of Scripture  -- Giovanni Bazzana; title: The usurpation of the Old Testament -- Sebastian Moll.