The reception and interpretation of the Bible in late antiquity: proceedings of the Montréal colloquium in honour of Charles Kannengiesser, 11-13 October 2006 PDF
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The Reception and Interpretation of the Bible in Late Antiquity DITOMMASO_f1_i-xxx.indd i 6/19/2008 2:50:20 PM Bible in Ancient Christianity General Editor D. Jeffrey Bingham Editorial Board Brian E. Daley Robin M. Jensen Christoph Markschies Maureen A. Tilley Robert L. Wilken Frances M. Young VOLUME 6 DITOMMASO_f1_i-xxx.indd ii 6/19/2008 2:50:23 PM The Reception and Interpretation of the Bible in Late Antiquity Proceedings of the Montréal Colloquium in Honour of Charles Kannengiesser, 11–13 October 2006 Edited by Lorenzo DiTommaso & Lucian Turcescu LEIDEN • BOSTON 2008 DITOMMASO_f1_i-xxx.indd iii 6/19/2008 2:50:23 PM Cover design: Jeannet Leendertse Cover art: Adapted from Greek New Testament, with Erasmus’s translation into Latin. Special Collections Division, Georgetown University Library. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The reception and interpretation of the Bible in late antiquity : proceedings of the Montreal colloquium in honour of Charles Kannengiesser, 11–13 October 2006 / edited by Lorenzo DiTommaso & Lucian Turcescu. p. cm. — (Bible in ancient Christianity ; v. 6) English and French. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-16715-5 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Bible—Criticism, interpretation, etc.—History—Early church, ca. 30–600— Congresses. I. Kannengiesser, Charles. II. DiTommaso, Lorenzo. III. Turcescu, Lucian. IV. Title. V. Series. BS500.R4 2008 220.609’015—dc22 2008010511 ISSN 1542-1295 ISBN 978 90 04 16715 5 Copyright 2008 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. 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Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands DITOMMASO_f1_i-xxx.indd iv 6/19/2008 2:50:23 PM CONTENTS Abbreviations .............................................................................. ix List of Contributors .................................................................... xv Acknowledgements ..................................................................... xix Introduction: The Reception and Interpretation of the Bible in Late Antiquity ........................................................................ xxi Lorenzo DiTommaso and Lucian Turcescu Congratulatory Letter ................................................................. xxvii The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury KEYNOTE ADDRESS The Novelty and Inescapability of the Bible in Late Antiquity ..................................................................................... 3 Robert Louis Wilken PAPERS « Car mes iniquités dépassèrent ma tête » : Les fonctions du texte biblique dans la section katanyktique du Logos Asketikos de Maxime le Confesseur ................................................................ 17 Pablo Argárate What Makes Exegesis either Christian or Jewish? .................... 37 Herbert W. Basser Augustine and the Ethics of Reading the Bible ........................ 55 Pamela Bright Appeals to Jesus and the One ‘Who Heals Every Illness and Every Infi rmity’ (Matt 4:23, 9:35) in Amulets in Late Antiquity ..................................................................................... 65 Theodore de Bruyn Le commentaire au 4e siècle ou, pour reformuler le dicton, ancienneté a-t-elle toujours autorité? ......................................... 83 Marie-Pierre Bussières DITOMMASO_f1_i-xxx.indd v 6/19/2008 2:50:23 PM vi contents Completing the Gospel: The Infancy Gospel of Thomas as a Supplement to the Gospel of Luke ........................................... 101 Tony Chartrand-Burke Good Tree, Bad Tree: The Matthean/Lukan Paradigm in Manichaeism and Its Opponents ............................................... 121 J. Kevin Coyle Biblical Form, Function, and Genre in the Post-Biblical Historical Apocalyptica .............................................................. 145 Lorenzo DiTommaso The Reception and Interpretation of Paul in Late Antiquity: 1 Corinthians 7 and the Ascetic Debates .................................. 163 David G. Hunter The Eternal Gospel: Origen’s Eschatological Exegesis ............. 193 Shawn W.J. Keough Making the Imperfect Perfect: The Adaptation of Hebrews 11 in the 9th Mēmrā of the Syriac Book of Steps .............................. 227 Robert A. Kitchen Les Homélies sur l’Évangile de Luc de Titus de Bostra ................... 253 Jean-Michel Lavoie, Paul-Hubert Poirier et Thomas S. Schmidt Hearing Love’s Language: The Letter of the Text in Origen’s Commentary on the Song of Songs .................................................... 287 Richard A. Layton The Early Rabbinic Refashioning of Biblical Heilsgeschichte, the Fashioning of the Rabbinic Canon of Scriptures, and the Formation of the Early Rabbinic Movement ............................ 317 Jack N. Lightstone ‘Τὰ τίνων ἄρα ῥήματα θεολογεῖ?’: The Exegetical Relationship between Athanasius’ Orationes contra Arianos I–III and Marcellus of Ancyra’s Contra Asterium ................................. 337 Sara Parvis Présupposés herméneutiques de la lecture de la Bible juive chez les gnostiques. Étude de quelques procédés exégétiques dans un traité de Nag Hammadi (NH 2, 4) .............................. 369 Anne Pasquier DITOMMASO_f1_i-xxx.indd vi 6/19/2008 2:50:23 PM contents vii Scripture for a Life of Perfection. The Bible in Late Antique Monasticism: The Case of Palestine .......................................... 393 Lorenzo Perrone Separating Light from Darkness: Manichaean Use of Biblical Traditions in the Kephalaia .......................................................... 419 Timothy Pettipiece The Reception of Early Christian Texts and Traditions in Late Antiquity Apocryphal Literature ................................................ 429 Pierluigi Piovanelli Methods of Early Rabbinic Biblical Exegesis ........................... 441 Gary G. Porton Pseudepigraphy, Authorship, and the Reception of ‘the Bible’ in Late Antiquity ........................................................................ 467 Annette Yoshiko Reed Between Scripture and Tradition: The Marian Apocrypha of Early Christianity ........................................................................ 491 Stephen J. Shoemaker Gregory of Nyssa’s Biblical Hermeneutics in De opifi cio hominis .......................................................................................... 511 Lucian Turcescu SPECIAL GUEST PAPER Scripture as a Legacy of the Fathers ......................................... 529 Charles Kannengiesser Bibliography of the Works of Charles Kannengiesser .............. 543 Index of Ancient Sources ........................................................... 561 Index of Modern Authors .......................................................... 599 Compiled by Éric Crégheur DITOMMASO_f1_i-xxx.indd vii 6/19/2008 2:50:24 PM DITOMMASO_f1_i-xxx.indd viii 6/19/2008 2:50:24 PM ABBREVIATIONS AATor Atti (della reale) Accademia (delle scienze di) Torino AB Anchor Bible ABD Anchor Bible Dictionary (ed. D.N. Freedman; New York: Double day, 1992) ACO Acta conciliorum oecomenicorum ACW Ancient Christian Writers AJPh American Journal of Philology AKG Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte AMRG Arbeitsmaterialien zur Religionsgeschichte. AnBoll Analecta Bollandiana ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt. Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung (ed. H. Temporini and W. Haase; Berlin/ New York: W. de Gruyter, 1972–) AOC Archives de l’orient chrétien APF Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete ARefG Archiv für Reformationgeschichte ARG Archiv für Religiongeschichte ASE Annali di storia dell’esegesi AugS Augustinian Studies Augustin Augustinianum BAC The Bible in Ancient Christianity BASP Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists BCNH Bibliothèque copte de Nag Hammadi BEATAJ Beiträge zur Erforschung des Alten Testaments und des antiken Judentum BÉFAR Bibliothèque de l’École française d’Athènes et de Rome BÉHÉ Bibliothèque de l’École des hautes études BETL Bibliotheca ephemeridum theologicarum Lova niensium BI Biblical Interpretation Bijdragen Bijdragen van de philosophische en theologische Faculteiten der nederlandische Jezuieten BJb Bonner Jahrbuch BJRL Bulletin of the John Rylands (University) Library BJS Brown Judaic Studies BKT Berliner Klassikertexte BL Bibel und Leben BLE Bulletin de littérature ecclésiastique BP Biblioteca patristica BSGRT Bibliotheca scriptorum graecorum et romanorum Teubneriana BSR Biblioteca di scienze religiose Byz Byzantion. Revue internationale des études byzantines ByzNGJb Byzantinisch-neugriechische Jahrbücher ByzZ Byzantinische Zeitschrift BZ Biblische Zeitschrift BZAW Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für alttestamentliche Wissenschaft BZNW Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche CA Christianisme antique DITOMMASO_f1_i-xxx.indd ix 6/19/2008 2:50:24 PM
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