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New Testament and Christian apocrypha / Fran�ois Bovon ; edited by Glenn E. Snyder.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, 2011.Description: viii, 381 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0801039231
  • 9780801039232
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 225.6 23
Contents:
"The good" and "the best" in Paul's thinking -- Names and numbers in early Christianity -- The ethics of the first Christians : between memory and oblivion -- Variety and authority of the first Christian ethics -- Missionary practice and transmission of the Gospel in early Christianity -- Christ in the book of Revelation -- John's self-presentation in Rev. 1:9-10 -- Tracing the trajectory of Luke 13:22-30 back to Q : a study in Lukan redaction -- Tradition and redaction in Acts 10:1-11:18 -- Moses in Luke-Acts -- The death of Jesus in Luke-Acts -- Sayings specific to Luke in the Gospel of Thomas -- Fragment Oxyrhynchus 840, fragment of a lost Gospel, witness of an early Christian controversy over purity -- Canonical and apocryphal Acts of the Apostles -- The child and the beast : fighting violence in ancient Christianity -- Women priestesses in the apocryphal Acts of Philip -- Mary Magdalene in the Acts of Philip -- Facing the Scriptures : mimesis and intertextuality in the Acts of Philip -- The reception and use of the Gospel of Luke in the second century -- Paul as document and Paul as monument -- Canonical, rejected, and useful books -- Scripture as promise and as closure.
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Originally published as New Testament and Christian Apocrypha : collected studies II. T�bingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"The good" and "the best" in Paul's thinking -- Names and numbers in early Christianity -- The ethics of the first Christians : between memory and oblivion -- Variety and authority of the first Christian ethics -- Missionary practice and transmission of the Gospel in early Christianity -- Christ in the book of Revelation -- John's self-presentation in Rev. 1:9-10 -- Tracing the trajectory of Luke 13:22-30 back to Q : a study in Lukan redaction -- Tradition and redaction in Acts 10:1-11:18 -- Moses in Luke-Acts -- The death of Jesus in Luke-Acts -- Sayings specific to Luke in the Gospel of Thomas -- Fragment Oxyrhynchus 840, fragment of a lost Gospel, witness of an early Christian controversy over purity -- Canonical and apocryphal Acts of the Apostles -- The child and the beast : fighting violence in ancient Christianity -- Women priestesses in the apocryphal Acts of Philip -- Mary Magdalene in the Acts of Philip -- Facing the Scriptures : mimesis and intertextuality in the Acts of Philip -- The reception and use of the Gospel of Luke in the second century -- Paul as document and Paul as monument -- Canonical, rejected, and useful books -- Scripture as promise and as closure.