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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
Series: - The Bible in Ancient Christianity, Volume: 6
The volume is a Festschrift offered to Charles Kannengiesser on the occasion of his 80th birthday and honours him for his numerous scholarly accomplishments. Its twenty-five contributions discuss some of the major issues pertaining to the reception and interpretation of the Bible in late antique Christianity and Judaism. They focus on the ways in which communities and individuals understood the Bible and interpreted its traditions to address their historical, social, and theological requirements. Since the Bible was by far the most important book during these centuries, a discussion of its influence in such contexts will illuminate significant aspects of the formation of western civilisation.
Lorenzo DiTommaso (Ph.D. in Religion, McMaster University, 2002) is Assistant Professor at Concordia University, Montréal. Among his other books are The Dead Sea New Jerusalem Text (Mohr Siebeck, 2005) and The Book of Daniel and the Apocryphal Daniel Literature (Brill, 2005).
Lucian Turcescu (Ph.D. in Theology, University of Toronto, 1999) is Associate Professor at Concordia University, Montréal, and President of the Canadian Society of Patristic Studies. He has written on Greek patristics, including Gregory of Nyssa and The Concept of Divine Persons (Oxford University Press, 2005), as well as religion and politics.
Contributors include: Pablo Argárate, Herbert W. Basser, Pamela Bright, Theodore de Bruyn, Marie-Pierre Bussières, Tony Chartrand-Burke, J. Kevin Coyle, Lorenzo DiTommaso, David G. Hunter, Shawn W.J. Keough, Robert A. Kitchen, Jean-Michel Lavoie, Paul-Hubert Poirier, Thomas S. Schmidt, Richard A. Layton, Jack N. Lightstone, Sara Parvis, Anne Pasquier, Lorenzo Perrone, Timothy Pettipiece, Pierluigi Piovanelli, Gary G. Porton, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Stephen J. Shoemaker, Lucian Turcescu, Robert Louis Wilken, and Charles Kannengiesser
Lucian Turcescu (Ph.D. in Theology, University of Toronto, 1999) is Associate Professor at Concordia University, Montréal, and President of the Canadian Society of Patristic Studies. He has written on Greek patristics, including Gregory of Nyssa and The Concept of Divine Persons (Oxford University Press, 2005), as well as religion and politics.
Contributors include: Pablo Argárate, Herbert W. Basser, Pamela Bright, Theodore de Bruyn, Marie-Pierre Bussières, Tony Chartrand-Burke, J. Kevin Coyle, Lorenzo DiTommaso, David G. Hunter, Shawn W.J. Keough, Robert A. Kitchen, Jean-Michel Lavoie, Paul-Hubert Poirier, Thomas S. Schmidt, Richard A. Layton, Jack N. Lightstone, Sara Parvis, Anne Pasquier, Lorenzo Perrone, Timothy Pettipiece, Pierluigi Piovanelli, Gary G. Porton, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Stephen J. Shoemaker, Lucian Turcescu, Robert Louis Wilken, and Charles Kannengiesser
Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Reception and Interpretation of the Bible in Late Antiquity
LORENZO DITOMMASO AND LUCIAN TURCESCU
Congratulatory Letter
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ROWAN WILLIAMS, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
The Novelty and Inescapability of the Bible in Late Antiquity
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
PABLO ARGÃRATE
What Makes Exegesis either Christian or Jewish?
HERBERT W. BASSER
Augustine and the Ethics of Reading the Bible
PAMELA BRIGHT
Appeals to Jesus and the One âWho Heals Every Illness and Every Infirmityâ
(Matt 4:23, 9:35) in Amulets in Late Antiquity
THEODORE DE BRUYN
Le commentaire au 4e s. ou, pour reformuler le dicton, ancienneté a-t-elle
toujours autorité?
MARIE-PIERRE BUSSIERES
Completing the Gospel: The Infancy Gospel of Thomas as a Supplement to the
Gospel of Luke
TONY CHARTRAND-BURKE
Good Tree, Bad Tree: The Matthean/Lukan Paradigm in Manichaeism
and Its Opponents
J. KEVIN COYLE
Biblical Form, Function, and Genre in the Post-Biblical Historical Apocalyptica
LORENZO DITOMMASO
The Reception and Interpretation of Paul in Late Antiquity: 1 Corinthians 7
and the Ascetic Debates
DAVID G. HUNTER
The Eternal Gospel: Origenâs Eschatological Exegesis
SHAWN W.J. KEOUGH
Making the Imperfect Perfect: The Adaptation of Hebrews 11 in the 9th MÄmrÄ
of the Syriac Book of Steps
ROBERT A. KITCHEN
Les Homélies sur lâÃvangile de Luc de Titus de Bostra
JEAN-MICHEL LAVOIE, PAUL-HUBERT POIRIER ET THOMAS S. SCHMIDT
Hearing Loveâs Language: The Letter of the Text in Origenâs Commentary
on the Song of Songs
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
JACK N. LIGHTSTONE
âTa__ ti&nwn a!ra r(h&mata qeologei=?â: The Exegetical Relationship between Athanasiusâ Orationes contra Arianos I-III and Marcellus of Ancyraâs Contra Asterium
SARA PARVIS
Présupposés herméneutiques de la lecture de la Bible juive chez les gnostiques. Ãtude
de quelques procédés exégétiques dans un traité de Nag Hammadi (NH 2, 4)
ANNE PASQUIER
Scripture for a Life of Perfection. The Bible in Late Antique Monasticism:
The Case of Palestine
LORENZO PERRONE
Separating Light from Darkness: Manichaean Use of Biblical Traditions
in the Kephalaia
TIMOTHY PETTIPIECE
The Reception of Early Christian Texts and Traditions in Late Antique
Apocryphal Literature
PIERLUIGI PIOVANELLI
Methods of Early Rabbinic Biblical Exegesis
GARY G. PORTON
Pseudepigraphy, Authorship, and the Reception of âthe Bibleâ in Late Antiquity
ANNETTE YOSHIKO REED
Between Scripture and Tradition: The Marian Apocrypha of Early Christianity
STEPHEN J. SHOEMAKER
Gregory of Nyssaâs Biblical Hermeneutics in De opificio hominis
LUCIAN TURCESCU
SPECIAL GUEST PAPER
Scripture as a Legacy of the Fathers
CHARLES KANNENGIESSER
Bibliography of the Works of Charles Kannengiesser
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Modern Authors
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Reception and Interpretation of the Bible in Late Antiquity
LORENZO DITOMMASO AND LUCIAN TURCESCU
Congratulatory Letter
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ROWAN WILLIAMS, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
The Novelty and Inescapability of the Bible in Late Antiquity
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
PABLO ARGÃRATE
What Makes Exegesis either Christian or Jewish?
HERBERT W. BASSER
Augustine and the Ethics of Reading the Bible
PAMELA BRIGHT
Appeals to Jesus and the One âWho Heals Every Illness and Every Infirmityâ
(Matt 4:23, 9:35) in Amulets in Late Antiquity
THEODORE DE BRUYN
Le commentaire au 4e s. ou, pour reformuler le dicton, ancienneté a-t-elle
toujours autorité?
MARIE-PIERRE BUSSIERES
Completing the Gospel: The Infancy Gospel of Thomas as a Supplement to the
Gospel of Luke
TONY CHARTRAND-BURKE
Good Tree, Bad Tree: The Matthean/Lukan Paradigm in Manichaeism
and Its Opponents
J. KEVIN COYLE
Biblical Form, Function, and Genre in the Post-Biblical Historical Apocalyptica
LORENZO DITOMMASO
The Reception and Interpretation of Paul in Late Antiquity: 1 Corinthians 7
and the Ascetic Debates
DAVID G. HUNTER
The Eternal Gospel: Origenâs Eschatological Exegesis
SHAWN W.J. KEOUGH
Making the Imperfect Perfect: The Adaptation of Hebrews 11 in the 9th MÄmrÄ
of the Syriac Book of Steps
ROBERT A. KITCHEN
Les Homélies sur lâÃvangile de Luc de Titus de Bostra
JEAN-MICHEL LAVOIE, PAUL-HUBERT POIRIER ET THOMAS S. SCHMIDT
Hearing Loveâs Language: The Letter of the Text in Origenâs Commentary
on the Song of Songs
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
JACK N. LIGHTSTONE
âTa__ ti&nwn a!ra r(h&mata qeologei=?â: The Exegetical Relationship between Athanasiusâ Orationes contra Arianos I-III and Marcellus of Ancyraâs Contra Asterium
SARA PARVIS
Présupposés herméneutiques de la lecture de la Bible juive chez les gnostiques. Ãtude
de quelques procédés exégétiques dans un traité de Nag Hammadi (NH 2, 4)
ANNE PASQUIER
Scripture for a Life of Perfection. The Bible in Late Antique Monasticism:
The Case of Palestine
LORENZO PERRONE
Separating Light from Darkness: Manichaean Use of Biblical Traditions
in the Kephalaia
TIMOTHY PETTIPIECE
The Reception of Early Christian Texts and Traditions in Late Antique
Apocryphal Literature
PIERLUIGI PIOVANELLI
Methods of Early Rabbinic Biblical Exegesis
GARY G. PORTON
Pseudepigraphy, Authorship, and the Reception of âthe Bibleâ in Late Antiquity
ANNETTE YOSHIKO REED
Between Scripture and Tradition: The Marian Apocrypha of Early Christianity
STEPHEN J. SHOEMAKER
Gregory of Nyssaâs Biblical Hermeneutics in De opificio hominis
LUCIAN TURCESCU
SPECIAL GUEST PAPER
Scripture as a Legacy of the Fathers
CHARLES KANNENGIESSER
Bibliography of the Works of Charles Kannengiesser
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Modern Authors
All those interested in intellectual history, patristics, Late Antiquity, early Church history, and the reception of the Bible in Patristic, Rabbinic, Gnostic, and apocryphal literature.