The Discursive Fight Over Religious Texts in Antiquity
Published on 22. April 2009
207 pages
978-87-7934-658-1 (ISBN)
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The volumes of Religion and Normativity presents the latest research in three central fields. Volume I discusses the construction of normative texts in early Christianity and Judaism, including canon formation, the question of authoritative interpretation of canon, and the re-writing of normative texts in new situations. Among other things, the authors employ literary theories and memory construction.
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Anders-Christian Jacobsen
Discursive Fight Over Religious Texts in Antiquity
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Aarhus University Press
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Content
- Front Matter
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of contents
- Preface
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I. The discursive fight over religious texts in antiquity - theoretical perspectives
- CONSTRAINING SEMIOTIC RIVERRUN
- Contemporary examples of canonisation
- The cultural pervasiveness of canonisation processes
- Canonisation as semiotic closure
- Different gradations of textual authority
- Different contemporary understandings of canonicity
- Ancient understandings of canonicity
- Conclusion
- NORMATIVITY AND THE DYNAMIC OF MUTUAL AUTHORISATION
- Introduction
- Orality and literacy
- From Homeric psyche to Platonic mind
- Critical interpretation
- Stoic hermeneutics: Problem solving
- Authorisation
- The dynamic of mutual authorisation
- Closedness and open-endedness
- Conclusion: Other aspects of the advantage of open-endedness and self-contradiction
- NORMATIVITY, IDEOLOGY, AND RECEPTION IN PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN ANTIQUITY: SOME OBSERVATIONS
- Conceptual frameworks
- A specific example
- Conclusions
- 'THAT IS BELIEVED WITHOUT GOOD REASON WHICH IS BELIEVED WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE OF ITS ORIGIN.'
- For the sake of.. Ancient and modern provenance debates in the service of a wider thesis
- Ancient provenance debates examined, the purpose of this article
- Frontlines and battlefields in ancient provenance debates, the material for this article
- Context of ancient debates on provenance
- The authority of antiquity and the preference for the eyewitness
- Internal debate on provenance, the provenance of Revelation discussed in relation to the debate over chiliastic eschatology
- Justin on the provenance of Revelation in Christian debate on eschatology.
- Rejection of Revelation with arguments based on its provenance
- Dionysius' refutation of chiliasm and his moderate critique of Revelation
- Views on the provenance of Revelation, eschatological views and the use of writings
- Links between the ancient and the modern debate on the provenance of Revelation
- Sectarian debate on the provenance of the Gospels
- Tertullian's rhetorical tactic in refuting Marcion: turning his own evidence against him
- Marcion's critique of the Gospels which were not his own
- Tertullian's skirmish, his debate with Marcionites over the provenance of the gospels
- Conclusion
- NORMATIVITY AND MEMORY IN THE MAKING:
- Founding Constantinople and 'New Rome' 'equal to Rome': the shaping of cultural memory
- Remembering territory and topography
- Perspective & conclusion: the rise of the myth of the seven hills
- PART II. The discursive fight over biblical and post-biblical texts
- COMMUNICATION OF AUTHORITY
- The hermeneutical background
- History and theology
- Jeremiah the prophet
- Concluding remarks - prophetic authority today?
- THE SALVATION SYSTEM IN THE SOPHIA OF JESUS CHRIST.
- Introduction
- The pantheon of the heavenly world
- The immortal Man and the soteriological implications
- Cosmogonic time
- Anthropogonic time
- Present time
- Conclusion
- JUSTIN AND TRYPHO IN THE CONTEST OVER MOSES AND THE PROPHETS
- Common sacred scriptures
- Differing hermeneutical premises
- Differences in the exegesis of specific passages
- Conclusions and summary
- NORMATIVE STRUCTURES IN ORIGEN'S BIBLICAL EXEGESIS
- Introduction
- Main lines in Origen's allegorical exegesis
- Theological norms
- Philosophical norms
- Literary and rhetorical norms in Origen's exegesis
- Conclusion
- THE SONG OF SONGS AS NORMATIVE TEXT
- Introduction
- Some trends in newer commentaries
- A renewed questioning of the literary genre of the text
- The Song in its canonical context
- The effect of the text on its readers
- Gregory of Nyssa's reading of the Song of Songs
- The Song read as a metaphor
- The Song as part of Scripture
- The Song and the spiritual growth of its readers
- Conclusion: The Song of Songs as a normative text
- THE NEW TESTAMENT CANON AND ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA'S 39TH FESTAL LETTER
- THE INFLUENCE OF ISLAM ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF MANDAEAN LITERATURE
- The Ginza
- Book of John
- Expressing a desire for standardised literature
- Conclusion
- UNUM AND UNUS SPIRITUS:
- Augustine
- Bernard
- William
- Conclusion
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
