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Early Christian Epistolarity
Series: - Critical Approaches to Early Christianity, Volume: 5
Many surviving early Christian writings are in the form of letters, some sent by and to those named, others imagined. What did the authors, copyists, and later collectors intend by authoring or reworking letters, as opposed to other genres? How did the first or subsequent readers respond, differently perhaps than to a novel or history? In her Radboud Prestige Lectures in New Testament, published in this volume, Judith Lieu explores these questions by drawing on the concept of ‘epistolarity.’ Her lectures are followed by chapters by leading experts in the field who engage her work from different angles, finding points of contact and potential conversation between different texts and authors, together with possibilities for further exploration and application.
Judith M. Lieu is Lady Margaret's Professor Emerita at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge.
Matthijs den Dulk is Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature at Radboud University and Academic Director of the Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion.
Matthijs den Dulk is Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature at Radboud University and Academic Director of the Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion.
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
Matthijs den Dulk
2 The Rediscovery of Christian Epistolarity: From Paul to Eusebius
Judith M. Lieu
3 Rewriting Time and Space: Absence and Presence
Judith M. Lieu
4 Experiencing Relationships and Creating Networks
Judith M. Lieu
5 Paul in Letters: The Impact of Letter Collections on the Origin of Christian Epistolarity Compositions and the Question for the Historical Paul
Angela Standhartinger
6 The Epistolary Shape of Epistemic and Noetic Thinking: Paul on Self-Cognition and Self-Knowledge
Eve-Marie Becker
7 Time and Timelessness in Ignatius’ Letters
Jan Willem van Henten
8 Remembering Ignatius: Letters as Processes of Christian Memory-Making
Cavan Concannon
9 Fashioning Allegiance and Dissent: Social Networks and the Letters of Cyprian of Carthage
Harry O. Maier
10 Measuring and Simulating Early Clerical Social Relations: Quantitative Network Analysis and the Letters of Cyprian and Dionysius of Alexandria
Adam Schor
11 How Letters Made History in Late Antiquity: Embedded Letters in Narratives of Classical and Christian Rome
Bronwen Neil
12 Epistolary Networks: Transmission and Flux in Ancient Letter Collections
J. Gregory Given
13 Letters of Refuge: Early Christian Epistolography from Modern Calais to Ancient Gaul
James Corke-Webster
14 Epilogue
Judith M. Lieu
Index
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
Matthijs den Dulk
Part 1
2 The Rediscovery of Christian Epistolarity: From Paul to Eusebius
Judith M. Lieu
3 Rewriting Time and Space: Absence and Presence
Judith M. Lieu
4 Experiencing Relationships and Creating Networks
Judith M. Lieu
Part 2
5 Paul in Letters: The Impact of Letter Collections on the Origin of Christian Epistolarity Compositions and the Question for the Historical Paul
Angela Standhartinger
6 The Epistolary Shape of Epistemic and Noetic Thinking: Paul on Self-Cognition and Self-Knowledge
Eve-Marie Becker
7 Time and Timelessness in Ignatius’ Letters
Jan Willem van Henten
8 Remembering Ignatius: Letters as Processes of Christian Memory-Making
Cavan Concannon
9 Fashioning Allegiance and Dissent: Social Networks and the Letters of Cyprian of Carthage
Harry O. Maier
10 Measuring and Simulating Early Clerical Social Relations: Quantitative Network Analysis and the Letters of Cyprian and Dionysius of Alexandria
Adam Schor
11 How Letters Made History in Late Antiquity: Embedded Letters in Narratives of Classical and Christian Rome
Bronwen Neil
12 Epistolary Networks: Transmission and Flux in Ancient Letter Collections
J. Gregory Given
13 Letters of Refuge: Early Christian Epistolography from Modern Calais to Ancient Gaul
James Corke-Webster
14 Epilogue
Judith M. Lieu
Index
This volume would be of interest to students taking special subjects or graduate studies, scholars, and others interested in ancient letters, late antiquity, New Testament, and early Christianity, as well as the libraries servicing them.