Jörg Ulrich is Professor of Early Church History in the Faculty of Theology at the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany).Anders-Christian Jacobsen is Professor of Systematic Theology in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Aarhus (Denmark).David Brakke is Professor of Ancient Christianity in the Department of Religious Studies at the Indiana University of Bloomington (USA).

• Contents: Anders-Christian Jacobsen/Jörg Ulrich: Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation. Discursive Fights over Religious Traditions in Antiquity. Introduction – Harold W. Attridge: Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation: The Case of the Johannine Gospel in the Second Century – Christian Müller: From Athanasius to «Athanasius»: Usurping a «Nicene Hero» or: The Making-of of the «Athanasian Creed» – Marianne Sághy: Fido recubans sub tegmine Christi: Rewriting as Orthodoxy in the Epigrammata Damasiana – Gábor Kendeffy: Velamentum stultitiae: 1 Cor 1:20f. and 3:19 in Lactantius’Divine Institutes – Gunnar Haaland: An Intertextual Geography of Cultural Value: Flavius Josephus on the Inland Location of the Jewish People – Peter von Möllendorff: Canon as Pharmakón: Inside and Outside Discursive Sanity in Imperial Greek Literature – Karla Pollmann: Tradition and Innovation: The Transformation of Classical Literary Genres in Christian Late Antiquity – Jennifer Hart: An Unworthy Baptism Revisited – Anders Klostergaard Petersen: «Invention» and «Maintenance» of Religious Traditions: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives – Jörg Ulrich: Dimensions and Developments of Early Christian Historiography – Oda Wischmeyer: «Invented Traditions» and «New Traditions» in Earliest Christianity – Einar Thomassen: What is Heresy, and Why Did it Matter? – Uta Heil: Bishop - Bible - Creed: Normative Rules in the Contest for «Orthodoxy» and «Heresy» in Early Christianity – Thomas Graumann: Orthodoxy, Authority and the (Re-) Construction of the Past in Church Councils – Hugo Lundhaug: Shenoute’s Heresiological Polemics and its Context(s) – David Brakke: Scriptural Practices in Early Christianity: Towards a New History of the New Testament Canon – Stephen B. Chapman: Second Temple Jewish Hermeneutics: How Canon is Not an Anachronism – Giovanni Bazzana: «Be Good Moneychangers»: The Role of an Agraphon in a Discursive Fight for the Canon of Scripture – Sebastian Moll: The Usurpation of the Old Testament.

Jörg Ulrich is Professor of Early Church History in the Faculty of Theology at the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany).Anders-Christian Jacobsen is Professor of Systematic Theology in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Aarhus (Denmark).David Brakke is Professor of Ancient Christianity in the Department of Religious Studies at the Indiana University of Bloomington (USA).

• Contents: Anders-Christian Jacobsen/Jörg Ulrich: Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation. Discursive Fights over Religious Traditions in Antiquity. Introduction – Harold W. Attridge: Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation: The Case of the Johannine Gospel in the Second Century – Christian Müller: From Athanasius to «Athanasius»: Usurping a «Nicene Hero» or: The Making-of of the «Athanasian Creed» – Marianne Sághy: Fido recubans sub tegmine Christi: Rewriting as Orthodoxy in the Epigrammata Damasiana – Gábor Kendeffy: Velamentum stultitiae: 1 Cor 1:20f. and 3:19 in Lactantius’Divine Institutes – Gunnar Haaland: An Intertextual Geography of Cultural Value: Flavius Josephus on the Inland Location of the Jewish People – Peter von Möllendorff: Canon as Pharmakón: Inside and Outside Discursive Sanity in Imperial Greek Literature – Karla Pollmann: Tradition and Innovation: The Transformation of Classical Literary Genres in Christian Late Antiquity – Jennifer Hart: An Unworthy Baptism Revisited – Anders Klostergaard Petersen: «Invention» and «Maintenance» of Religious Traditions: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives – Jörg Ulrich: Dimensions and Developments of Early Christian Historiography – Oda Wischmeyer: «Invented Traditions» and «New Traditions» in Earliest Christianity – Einar Thomassen: What is Heresy, and Why Did it Matter? – Uta Heil: Bishop - Bible - Creed: Normative Rules in the Contest for «Orthodoxy» and «Heresy» in Early Christianity – Thomas Graumann: Orthodoxy, Authority and the (Re-) Construction of the Past in Church Councils – Hugo Lundhaug: Shenoute’s Heresiological Polemics and its Context(s) – David Brakke: Scriptural Practices in Early Christianity: Towards a New History of the New Testament Canon – Stephen B. Chapman: Second Temple Jewish Hermeneutics: How Canon is Not an Anachronism – Giovanni Bazzana: «Be Good Moneychangers»: The Role of an Agraphon in a Discursive Fight for the Canon of Scripture – Sebastian Moll: The Usurpation of the Old Testament.

Jörg Ulrich is Professor of Early Church History in the Faculty of Theology at the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany).Anders-Christian Jacobsen is Professor of Systematic Theology in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Aarhus (Denmark).David Brakke is Professor of Ancient Christianity in the Department of Religious Studies at the Indiana University of Bloomington (USA).

• Contents: Anders-Christian Jacobsen/Jörg Ulrich: Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation. Discursive Fights over Religious Traditions in Antiquity. Introduction – Harold W. Attridge: Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation: The Case of the Johannine Gospel in the Second Century – Christian Müller: From Athanasius to «Athanasius»: Usurping a «Nicene Hero» or: The Making-of of the «Athanasian Creed» – Marianne Sághy: Fido recubans sub tegmine Christi: Rewriting as Orthodoxy in the Epigrammata Damasiana – Gábor Kendeffy: Velamentum stultitiae: 1 Cor 1:20f. and 3:19 in Lactantius’Divine Institutes – Gunnar Haaland: An Intertextual Geography of Cultural Value: Flavius Josephus on the Inland Location of the Jewish People – Peter von Möllendorff: Canon as Pharmakón: Inside and Outside Discursive Sanity in Imperial Greek Literature – Karla Pollmann: Tradition and Innovation: The Transformation of Classical Literary Genres in Christian Late Antiquity – Jennifer Hart: An Unworthy Baptism Revisited – Anders Klostergaard Petersen: «Invention» and «Maintenance» of Religious Traditions: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives – Jörg Ulrich: Dimensions and Developments of Early Christian Historiography – Oda Wischmeyer: «Invented Traditions» and «New Traditions» in Earliest Christianity – Einar Thomassen: What is Heresy, and Why Did it Matter? – Uta Heil: Bishop - Bible - Creed: Normative Rules in the Contest for «Orthodoxy» and «Heresy» in Early Christianity – Thomas Graumann: Orthodoxy, Authority and the (Re-) Construction of the Past in Church Councils – Hugo Lundhaug: Shenoute’s Heresiological Polemics and its Context(s) – David Brakke: Scriptural Practices in Early Christianity: Towards a New History of the New Testament Canon – Stephen B. Chapman: Second Temple Jewish Hermeneutics: How Canon is Not an Anachronism – Giovanni Bazzana: «Be Good Moneychangers»: The Role of an Agraphon in a Discursive Fight for the Canon of Scripture – Sebastian Moll: The Usurpation of the Old Testament.