The Pseudo-Clementines (2010 Bremmer), edited volume

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The Pseudo-Clementines (2010) is a volume edited by Jan N. Bremmer.

Abstract

"In recent years the so-called apocryphal literature has increasingly drawn the attention of scholars interested in early Christianity, ancient history and the ancient novel. New editions of the most important texts have already appeared or are being prepared. We are therefore pleased to announce a new series, Studies on Early Christian Apocrypha (formerly called Studies on the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles). The editors welcome contributions on individual aspects of the main texts, be it proceedings of conferences or monographs. Jan N. Bremmer is Professor of Religious Studies at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and a well-known expert on Greek and Roman religion as well as Early Christianity. This book is one of the first modern collections of studies on important aspects of the Pseudo-Clementines, which occupy a special place among the early Christian writings, due to their complicated origin and their relevance in reconstructing Jewish Christianity. The volume starts with two chapters which discuss the problems of the date, place, text and genre of the Pseudo-Clementines. The majority of chapters focus on various aspects and passages of the Homilies and Recognitions. In the Homilies we look at philanthropy, the relationship between Judaism an Hellenism. Appion and Annoubion, Enochic traditions, Orphic cosmogonies, philosophical sources, the theory of two ways and the conversion of families. In the Recognitions we look at the theme of recognition, the doctrine of free will, figures of speech, the Sadducees and the narrative intention of speeches. Finally, both works are interrogated on their uses of centre and periphery. The volume concludes with a discussion of Clement in the Legenda Aurea and, as has become customary, with an extensive bibliography and index."--Publisher description.

Editions and translations

Published in Leuven: Peeters, 2010 (Studies on Early Christian Apocrypha, 10).

Contents

Pseudo-Clementines : texts, dates, places, authors and magic / J.N. Bremmer -- The Clement romance : is it a novel? / I. Czachesz -- Pagan, Jewish and Christian philanthropy in antiquity : a Pseudo-Clementine keyword in context / G.H. van Kooten -- Judaism and Hellenism in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies and the canonical Acts of the Apostles / A.L.A. Hogeterp -- Apion and Anoubion in the Homilies / J.N. Bremmer -- Manna-eaters and man-eaters : food of giants and men in the Pseudo-Clementine homilies / E.J.C. Tigchelaar -- Orphic cosmogonies in the Pseudo-Clementines? : textual relationship, character and sources of Homilies 6.3-13 and Recognitions 10.17-19.30 / L. Roig Lanzillotta -- Faustus : Epicurean and stoic? : on the philosophical sources of the Pseudo-Clementines / C. Jedan -- Duae viae in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies / M. Pesthy -- The Pseudo-Clementine Homilies on the challenges of the conversion of families / C.B. Horn -- Recognitions in the Pseudo-Clementina / J. Bolyki -- Philosophy superseded? : the doctrine of free will in the Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions / C. Jedan -- Figures of speech and reason in the Recognitions / T. Adamik -- Jewish tradition on the Sadducees in the Pseudo-Clementines / F.St. Jones -- Proclaiming the Gospel in the Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions : historical settings and communicative intention of speeches in recognitions / A.L.A. Hogeterp -- Centre and periphery in the ancient and the Christian novel : a comparison between the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies and Recognitions / M. Vielberg -- The chapter on Clement in Jacobus de Voragine's Golden legend / A. Hilhorst

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