Rediscovering the Apocryphal Continent

Pierluigi Piovanelli (Herausgegeben von) Born 1961; 1987 MA; 1992 PhD; Professor of Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity at the University of Ottawa (Ottawa, Canada).Tony Burke (Herausgegeben von) Born 1968; 1995 MA; 2001 PhD; Associate Professor of Religious Studies at York University (Toronto, Canada).

• I. IntroductionPierluigi Piovanelli: The Christian Apocryphal Texts at the Society of Biblical Literature International Meetings (2004-2006) and the Ottawa International Workshop (2006): Retrospects and ProspectsII. General PerspectivesTony Burke: Entering the Mainstream: Twenty-five Years of Research on the Christian Apocrypha - Ian H. Henderson: The Usefulness of Christian Apocryphal Texts in Research on the Historical Jesus - James R. Davila: Did Christians Write Old Testament Pseudepigrapha That Appear to Be Jewish? - Annette Yoshiko Reed: "Jewish-Christian" Apocrypha and the History of Jewish/Christian RelationsIII. From Early Christian Texts to Late Antique Apocryphal LiteratureLouis Painchaud: With Regard to the (Re)Discovery of the Gospel of Judas - Minna Heimola: Christians and Jews in the Gospel of Philip - Theodore de Bruyn: Christian Apocryphal and Canonical Narratives in Greek Amulets and Formularies in Late Antiquity - Stephen J. Shoemaker: Mary in Early Christian Apocrypha: Virgin Territory - Pierluigi Piovanelli: Why Mary and Peter? From the Early Christian Gospel of Mary to the Late Antique Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles - Peter W. Dunn: Luke's Acts or the Acts of Paul: Which Looks More Like a Second-Century Text? - Cornelia Horn: Depictions of Children and Young People as Literary Motifs in Canonical and Apocryphal Acts - Vahan Hovhanessian: The Repose of the Blessed John in the Armenian Bible: Deconstructing the Acts of John - Timothy Beech: Unraveling the Complexity of the Oracula Sibyllina: The Value of a Socio-Rhetorical Approach in the Study of the Sibylline Oracles - Michael Kaler: Gnostic Irony and the Adaptation of the Apocalyptic Genre - Timothy Pettipiece: The Manichaean Reception of Apocryphal Traditions: The Case of the "Five Limbs"IV. The Pseudo-Clementines: Early Christian Traditions in Late Antique EditionsF. Stanley Jones: John the Baptist and His Disciples in the Pseudo-Clementines: A Historical Appraisal - Kelley Coblentz Bautch: The Pseudo-Clementine Homilies' Use of Jewish Pseudepigrapha - Giovanni Battista Bazzana: Healing the World: Medical and Social Practice in the Pseudo-Clementine Novel - Dominique Côté: Rhetoric and Jewish-Christianity: The Case of the Grammarian Apion in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies - Nicole Kelley: Pseudo-Clementine Polemics against Sacrifice: A Window onto Religious Life in the Fourth Century?