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Beyond Canon: Early Christianity and the Ethiopic Textual Tradition (Lanham : Fortress Academic, 2020) is a volume edited by Meron Gebreananaye, Logan Williams, and Francis Watson.

Abstract

"This book seeks to highlight the significance of a group of five texts excluded from the standard Christian Bible and preserved only in Ge'ez, the classical language of Ethiopia. These texts are crucial for modern scholars due to their significance for a wide range of early readers, as extant fragments of other early translations confirm in most cases; yet they are also noted for their eventual marginalization and abandonment as a more restrictive understanding of the biblical canon prevailed – everywhere except in Ethiopia, with its distinctive Christian tradition in which the concept of a “closed canon” is alien ... In focusing upon 1 Enoch, Jubilees, the Ascension of Isaiah, the Epistula Apostolorum, and the Apocalypse of Peter, the contributors to this volume group them together as representatives of a time in early Christian history when sacred texts were not limited by a sharply defined canonical boundary. In doing so, this book also highlights the unique and under-appreciated contribution of Ethiopia to the study of early Christianity."--Publisher description.

Contents

• 1: The End-Time in 1 Enoch, Paul, and Matthew: Continuity and Discontinuity - Philip Esler, University of Gloucestershire, UK
• 2: Debating Daniel's Dream: The Synoptic Gospels and the Similitudes of Enoch on the Son of Man - Logan Williams, Durham University, UK
• 3: Comparing Apples and Oranges? Eschatological Perspectives from 1 Enoch and 1 Peter - Sofanit T. Abebe, University of Edinburgh, UK
• 4: Has Christian Tradition Influenced the Ge'ez and Greek Versions of 1 Enoch? - Loren T. Stuckenbruck, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany
• 5: Non-Human Animals in the Primeval History of Jubilees - James Hamrick, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany
• 6: The Trial against Isaiah: About Alleged Jewish Backgrounds of the Ascension of Isaiah - Jan Dochhorn, Durham University, UK
• 7: The Vorlage of the Ethiopic Version of the Epistula Apostolorum: Greek or Arabic? - Darrell Hannah, All Saints Church Ascot Heath, UK
• 8: The Apocalypse of Peter in Ethiopic Tradition - Eric Beck, University of Edinburgh, UK
• 9: Gospel Traditions in Transition: A Look at the Ethiopic Tamare Iyesus - Meron T. Gebreananaye, Durham University, UK
• 10: 'The House of the Gospel': Text, Image, and Sacred Space - Francis Watson, Durham University, UK
• 11: Afterword - Michael Knibb, Kings College London, UK

External links

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