Writing the history of early Christianity: from reception to retrospection
Brings a new approach to the interpretation of the sources used to study the Early Christian era - reading history backwards.
| Summary: | Brings a new approach to the interpretation of the sources used to study the Early Christian era - reading history backwards. Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Postscript: Turning History Upside Down -- 1 Methodological Introduction -- Reception -- Retrospection -- Flashback and Flashforward -- Present Time-Lines -- Retromodernity -- New Historicism -- Individualisation -- Entangled History -- Writing the History of Early Christianity -- Bibliography -- 2 'Abercius': Pious Fraud, Now and Then? -- 'Abercius' Today: The Museo Pio Cristiano and The Life of Abercius -- Between Fiction and Appropriation -- Retrieving the Formative Stages -- The General View Today -- Allen Brent: Stereotypical Workshop Products -- Older Protestant Positions -- Peter Thonemann: The Vita Abercii and the Epitaph of 'Abercius' -- A Retrospective Exploration -- Alexander, the Citizen of Hieropolis and His Ambiguous Allegiance to Rome -- 'Abercius' and Travellers to Rome -- The Vita and Its Reconstructing History -- Bibliography -- 3 Hippolytus of Rome: A Manifold Enigma -- Current Research on the Statue, Discovered during Renaissance Humanism -- Classical Iconography and Mythology -- Hippolytus: Rome, Wisdom, Literature -- The Statue: A Big Statement -- Bibliography -- 4 Aristides of Athens: Apologetics and Narratives -- Aristides' Apology -- An Historical Setting of the Apology: The Aftermath of Bar Kokhba -- The Origin and Nature of Christians -- The Apology and Its Redactions -- A Retrospective Lesson -- Bibliography -- 5 Ignatius of Antioch: A Mysterious Martyr -- The Nineteenth-Century Anti-Enlightenment Debate about the So-Called Short Recension -- Witnessing Ignatius -- Lightfoot and Zahn against Cureton -- Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1828-1889) -- External Evidence -- Internal Evidence -- Semantic Comparison between the Short and the Middle Recension (Lemma 'α') -- The Scriptures in the Middle and Short Recensions. |
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| ISBN: | 1108571867 |