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Jewish-Christian Interpretation of the Pentateuch in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies / Donald H. Carlson.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2013.Description: xvi, 250 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780800699772
  • 0800699777
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 270.1 CAR
Contents:
Abbreviations -- Overview of Previous Scholarship -- The Rejection of Allegorism -- The Theory of the False Pericopes -- The True Prophet's Teaching as an Exegetical Criterion -- Oral Tradition as an Exegetical Criterion -- The Harmony Criterion -- Summary and Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Names and Subjects -- Index of Greek Terms -- Index of Ancient Sources
Summary: "The pseudo-Clementine writings are one of the most intriguing and valuable sources for early Jewish Christianity. They offer a second- or third-century polemic against the form of Christianity that eventually won out, the Gentile-majority, law-free Christianity that took Paul as its champion. Carlson's interest here is in the highly unusual theory expressed in the Homilies that the Pentateuch is saturated with "false pericopes," and that the teaching of Jesus, the "true prophet," is the criterion for establishing what the Pentateuch really means"--Page 4 of cover
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Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
Open Shelf Books Bishop Bukenya Library Open Access / General collection 270.1 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 154742

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-239) and indexes.

Abbreviations -- Overview of Previous Scholarship -- The Rejection of Allegorism -- The Theory of the False Pericopes -- The True Prophet's Teaching as an Exegetical Criterion -- Oral Tradition as an Exegetical Criterion -- The Harmony Criterion -- Summary and Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Names and Subjects -- Index of Greek Terms -- Index of Ancient Sources

"The pseudo-Clementine writings are one of the most intriguing and valuable sources for early Jewish Christianity. They offer a second- or third-century polemic against the form of Christianity that eventually won out, the Gentile-majority, law-free Christianity that took Paul as its champion. Carlson's interest here is in the highly unusual theory expressed in the Homilies that the Pentateuch is saturated with "false pericopes," and that the teaching of Jesus, the "true prophet," is the criterion for establishing what the Pentateuch really means"--Page 4 of cover

Text in English; some quotations in Greek

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