Christoph Scheurl and his Anthology of « New Testament Apocrypha » (1505,1513,1515)
Christoph Scheurl (d. 1542), a humanist scholar and lawyer dedicated his collection of New Testament Apocrypha to Charitas Pirckheimer, abbess of the convent of the Poor Clares at Nürnberg. The volume of Christian writings included the following apocryphal pieces: Pilate's « second » letter to...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brepols
1998
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Apocrypha
Year: 1998, Volume: 9, Pages: 133-156 |
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| Summary: | Christoph Scheurl (d. 1542), a humanist scholar and lawyer dedicated his collection of New Testament Apocrypha to Charitas Pirckheimer, abbess of the convent of the Poor Clares at Nürnberg. The volume of Christian writings included the following apocryphal pieces: Pilate's « second » letter to Tiberius, Pilate's «third» letter to Tiberius (added in 1515), Lentu- lus' letter to Tyberius [!], texts relating to the Legenda Abgari An examination of Scheurl's text of the pieces suggests that he had access to sources other than those used by his contemporaries, e.g. Barthélemy Chasseneuz, who also published apocryphal pieces in his Catalogus gloriae mundi. Scheurl did not attempt to set up a corpus of Apocryphal literature and was not at all interested in questions to do with canonicity. He intended the pieces for edification of a particular Christian élite and in that respect was a precursor of Fabricius, who, it must be said, did not know Scheurl's work. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Apocrypha
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.APOCRA.2.300862 |