Fan fiction and early Christian writings: Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha and Canon

"What can contemporary media fandoms, like Anne Rice, Star Wars, Batman, or Sherlock Holmes, tell us about ancient Christianity? Proposing an ingenious analysis, Tom de Bruin argues that disparaging terms applied to ancient Christian derivative texts, such as fakes, forgeries or corruptions, ar...

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Main Author: Bruin, Tom de (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: London New York Oxford New Delhi Sydney International Clark 2024
In: Scriptural traces: critical perspectives on the reception and influence of the Bible (33)
Year: 2024
Series/Journal:Scriptural traces: critical perspectives on the reception and influence of the Bible 33
Library of New Testament studies 673
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Church / Pseudepigraphy / Fan-Fiction / Analogy
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
HA Bible
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
Further subjects:B Bible. Apocrypha Criticism, interpretation, etc
B Fan fiction History and criticism
B Apocryphal books Criticism, interpretation, etc
B Bible and literature
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Summary:"What can contemporary media fandoms, like Anne Rice, Star Wars, Batman, or Sherlock Holmes, tell us about ancient Christianity? Proposing an ingenious analysis, Tom de Bruin argues that disparaging terms applied to ancient Christian derivative texts, such as fakes, forgeries or corruptions, are not sufficient to capture the production, consumption, and value of these writings. He instead suggests seeing them as analogous to contemporary fan fiction, and explores the analogies between current fan fiction and Christian pseudepigrapha, apocrypha and other secondary texts-and their limits"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:056770663X