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Ausgabe:

März/2022

Spalte:

220–222

Kategorie:

Kirchengeschichte: Alte Kirche, Christliche Archäologie

Autor/Hrsg.:

Walsh, Robyn Faith

Titel/Untertitel:

The Origins of Early Christian Literature. Contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman Literary Culture.

Verlag:

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2021. 225 S. Geb. £ 75,00. ISBN 9781108835305.

Rezensent:

Phillip A. Davis, Jr.

In this volume, which originated as a Ph.D. dissertation supervised by Stanley Stowers, Robyn Faith Walsh seeks to dispel any notion of the synoptic evangelists as simple but literate community representatives responsible for putting down in writing the commun-ity’s collection of oral tradition. For W. this picture represents an idealization of early Christian history influenced both by a second-century myth of Christian origins and nineteenth-century German Romanticism. She seeks to counter this position by contextualizing the evangelists as participants in a group of elite, creative »cultural producers« who drew upon typical ancient literary motifs and made use of a common ancient genre ( bios) to compose their Jesus stories. In this vein, W. sees the evangelists as inventive ...


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