The origins of early Christian literature: contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman literary culture

The Myth of Christian Origins -- The Romantic "Big Bang": German Romanticism and Inherited Methodology -- Authorship in Antiquity: Specialization & Social Formations -- Redescribing Early Christian Literature: The Gospels, The Satyrica, and Anonymous Sources -- The Gospels as S...

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Main Author: Walsh, Robyn Faith 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge New York Port Melbourne New Delhi Singapore Cambridge University Press 2022
In:Year: 2022
Reviews:[Rezension von: Walsh, Robyn Faith, 1980-, The origins of early Christian literature: contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman literary culture] (2022) (Davis, Phillip A.)
[Rezension von: Walsh, Robyn Faith, 1980-, The origins of early Christian literature: contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman literary culture] (2022) (Becker, Matthias, 1982 -)
[Rezension von: Walsh, Robyn Faith, 1980-, The origins of early Christian literature: contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman literary culture] (2022) (Becker, Matthias, 1982 -)
[Rezension von: Robyn Faith Walsh, The origins of early Christian literature] (Berlin : de Gruyter, 2022) (Becker, Matthias, 1982 -)
[Rezension von: Walsh, Robyn Faith, 1980-, The origins of early Christian literature: contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman literary culture] (2023) (Attridge, Harold W., 1946 -)
[Rezension von: Walsh, Robyn Faith, 1980-, The origins of early Christian literature: contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman literary culture] (2022) (Kochenash, Michael, 1985 -)
[Rezension von: Walsh, Robyn Faith, 1980-, The origins of early Christian literature: contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman literary culture] (2022) (Crook, Zeba)
Edition:First paperback edition
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Synoptic Gospels / Classical antiquity / Early Judaism / Literature
IxTheo Classification:HC New Testament
Further subjects:B Bible. Gospels Criticism, interpretation, etc
B Christianity and literature History To 1500
B Christian literature, Early History and criticism
B Thesis
B Classical literature History and criticism
Online Access: Volltext (doi)
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Summary:The Myth of Christian Origins -- The Romantic "Big Bang": German Romanticism and Inherited Methodology -- Authorship in Antiquity: Specialization & Social Formations -- Redescribing Early Christian Literature: The Gospels, The Satyrica, and Anonymous Sources -- The Gospels as Subversive Biography -- Conclusion.
"Conventional approaches to the Synoptic gospels argue that the gospel authors acted as literate spokespersons for their religious communities. Whether described as documenting intra-group "oral traditions" or preserving the collective perspectives of their fellow Christ-followers, these writers are treated as something akin to the Romantic Poet speaking for their Volk - a questionable framework inherited from 19th-century German Romanticism. In this book, Robyn Walsh argues that the Synoptic gospels were written by elite cultural producers working within a dynamic cadre of literate specialists, including persons who may or may not have been professed Christians. Comparing a range of ancient literature, her ground-breaking study demonstrates that the gospels are creative works produced by educated elites interested in Judean teachings, practices, and paradoxographical subjects in the aftermath of the Jewish War and in dialogue with the literature of their age. Walsh's study thus bridges the artificial divide between research on the Synoptic gospels and early Christianity"--
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 201-221
ISBN:1108793134
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/9781108883573