[Rezension von: Ehrman, Bart D., 1955-, Forgery and counterforgery : the use of literary deceit in early Christian polemics]
Bart Ehrman’s latest book studies the widespread practice of pseudepigraphy in early Christianity, a phenomenon familiar to scholars but rarely the subject of concentrated investigation. Ehrman is unequivocal in his view of the nature of the phenomenon: pseudepigraphy is deliberate forgery; it means...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 65, Issue: 1, Pages: 241-243 |
| Review of: | Forgery and counterforgery (s.l. : Oxford University Press, USA, 2012) (Thomassen, Einar)
Forgery and counterforgery (s.l. : Oxford University Press, USA, 2012) (Thomassen, Einar) Forgery and counterforgery (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2013) (Thomassen, Einar) |
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| Summary: | Bart Ehrman’s latest book studies the widespread practice of pseudepigraphy in early Christianity, a phenomenon familiar to scholars but rarely the subject of concentrated investigation. Ehrman is unequivocal in his view of the nature of the phenomenon: pseudepigraphy is deliberate forgery; it means writing a text with the intention to deceive the reader about the real identity of the author. He has little patience with those who claim that writing pretending to be someone else was a respectable literary convention in Antiquity, or that notions of intellectual property are a modern invention. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flu046 |