The Law and Prophets as Origen's Gospel
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White, Devin. (2021). The Law and Prophets as Origen's Gospel. In In Barclay, John M. G. and Crabbe, Kylie (Ed.). The Reception of Jewish Tradition in the Social Imagination of the Early Christians pp. 31 - 46 Bloomsbury T&T Clark.
Authors | White, Devin |
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Editors | Barclay, John M. G. and Crabbe, Kylie |
Abstract | [Extract] In recent years it has grown increasingly common to read ancient schools and religious groups as ‘textual communities’.2 Jane Heath, in a critical appraisal of the idea, suggests we understand a textual community as one ‘whose life, thought, sense of identity and relations with outsiders are organised around an authoritative text’.3 Applied to ancient Jewish and Christian relations, this notion of textual communities prompts several questions. For example, by what logic can ancient, gentile Christians define their own identities on the basis of authoritative writings received from and shared with their Jewish neighbours? Why did they conceive of themselves and those Jews as two textual communities and not one? While early Christian thinkers, beginning at least with the Apostle Paul, wrestled to clarify the place of the Law and Prophets in gentile Christian life and thought, few explained their appropriation of Jewish holy books with Origen of Alexandria’s precision and candour. |
Page range | 31 - 46 |
Year | 01 Jan 2021 |
Book title | The Reception of Jewish Tradition in the Social Imagination of the Early Christians |
Publisher | Bloomsbury T&T Clark |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
Series | The reception of Jesus in the first three centuries |
ISBN | 978-0-5676-9600-7 |
Web address (URL) | https://web.p.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=935cfef3-4988-4081-8ab9-fab768795c5f%40redis&bdata=JkF1dGhUeXBlPXNoaWImc2l0ZT1laG9zdC1saXZlJnNjb3BlPXNpdGU%3d#AN=2962061&db=nlebk |
Open access | Published as non-open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 2022 |
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Deposited | 19 Sep 2024 |
Additional information | Copyright © John M. G. Barclay, Kylie Crabbe and contributors, 2022 |
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