The forthcoming presentation will focus on how the Armenian literal tradition portrays these two Apostles, what kind of relations they have and what was their main role in the formation of the local Church tradition....
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This paper examines the place of the book of Revelation in the Byzantine tradition by explore its two streams of transmission - one in which it is transmitted alongside other New Testament works and another in which its connection to the New Testament is more ambivalent....
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Die Esrafigur ist ein bemerkenswertes Beispiel für die Rezeption einer biblischen Gestalt im antiken Judentum und im antiken und mittelalterlichen Christentum. Ausgehend von einer jüdischen Apokalypse (dem sogenannten 4. Esrabuch) sind im Christentum Schriften entstanden...
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Since the second half of the 19th century, scholars have been wondering about the date, provenance, and religious matrix of the short oracular text commonly known as the ‘Sixth Book of Ezra’ (6 Ezra). ...
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A fourth-century CE curse tablet (defixio) from Antioch uses the drowning of the Pharoah as a key element in its consigning of a green-grocer to fever and worse. My paper explores this defixio within the larger phenomenon of the citation of authoritative texts in ancient ritual objects (such as curse tablets and amulets)...
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As announced during the EELC Business meeting on January 22, 2021, we want to start a series of Digital Meetings for Emerging Scholars from Eastern Europe. The idea is to allow young scholars in New Testament and Early Christian Studies (plus Old Testament scholars), that is, young persons from Eastern Europe with an outstanding master’s thesis, doctoral students and/or post-docs, to present aspects of their research to a group of senior scholars and at the same time get to know each other and start creating their own scholarly network(s).
These meetings will be organized by the University of Regensburg Chair of NT/Centre for Advanced Studies “Beyond Canon” - at least for the time being.
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How does one write an introduction to a work for which nearly all isagogic questions are uncertain (e.g., author, date, place of composition, and opponents)? This is a challenge for the interpretation of scores of “apocryphal” Christian writings...
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Die jüdische Liturgie in Jerusalem hatte den Tempel als sein selbstverständliches Zentrum. Nach der Zerstörung der Metropole des jüdischen Kultes, wurde die Zentralität Jerusalems in die sich entwickelnde Welt der Gebete und liturgischen Poesie aufgenommen. ...
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Ancient writers of narrative regularly deployed – and often strategically flouted – established conventions regarding oratory. This presentation explores how early Christian narrative depictions of transgressive witness function rhetorically to legitimate alternative claims to religious authority....
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Simon Magus is a key figure in the earliest apocryphal Acts of Peter. He is a sorcerer and confidant of the emperor who clashes with Peter and, in later apocryphal texts, with both Peter and Paul...
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The summer school is designed for 12–15 doctoral candidates or early
career researchers, who will be selected by the board of organisers in view
of their closeness to the interdisciplinary topic; application deadline is 31 December 2020....
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