The reception and interpretation of the Bible in late antiquity: proceedings of the Montréal colloquium in honour of Charles Kannengiesser, 11-13 October 2006

639 Pages·2008·5.14 MB·French

by  Lorenzo DiTommaso

The Reception and Interpretation of the Bible
in Late Antiquity
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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