The Pseudo Clementines

by Jan N. Bremmer

This book is one of the first modern collections of studies on important aspects of the Pseudo-Clementines, which occupy a special place among the early Christian writings, due to their complicated origin and their relevance in ...

The Pseudo Clementines

Author: Jan N. Bremmer

Publisher: Peeters Pub & Booksellers

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In recent years the so-called apocryphal literature has increasingly drawn the attention of scholars interested in early Christianity, ancient history and the ancient novel. New editions of the most important texts have already appeared or are being prepared. We are therefore pleased to announce a new series, Studies on Early Christian Apocrypha (formerly called Studies on the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles). The editors welcome contributions on individual aspects of the main texts, be it proceedings of conferences or monographs. Jan N. Bremmer is Professor of Religious Studies at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and a well-known expert on Greek and Roman religion as well as Early Christianity. This book is one of the first modern collections of studies on important aspects of the Pseudo-Clementines, which occupy a special place among the early Christian writings, due to their complicated origin and their relevance in reconstructing Jewish Christianity. The volume starts with two chapters which discuss the problems of the date, place, text and genre of the Pseudo-Clementines. The majority of chapters focus on various aspects and passages of the Homilies and Recognitions. In the Homilies we look at philanthropy, the relationship between Judaism an Hellenism. Appion and Annoubion, Enochic traditions, Orphic cosmogonies, philosophical sources, the theory of two ways and the conversion of families. In the Recognitions we look at the theme of recognition, the doctrine of free will, figures of speech, the Sadducees and the narrative intention of speeches. Finally, both works are interrogated on their uses of centre and periphery. The volume concludes with a discussion of Clement in the Legenda Aurea and, as has become customary, with an extensive bibliography and index.

Knowledge and Religious Authority in the Pseudo Clementines

by Nicole Kelley

Using the work of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, Nicole Kelley analyzes the rhetorical strategies employed by the Recognitions .

Knowledge and Religious Authority in the Pseudo Clementines

Author: Nicole Kelley

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

ISBN: 9783161490361

Page: 250

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The Pseudo-Clementines are best known for preserving early Jewish Christian traditions, but have not been appreciated as a resource for understanding the struggles over identity and orthodoxy among fourth-century Christians, Jews, and pagans. Using the work of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, Nicole Kelley analyzes the rhetorical strategies employed by the Recognitions . These strategies discredit the knowledge of philosophers and astrologers, and establish Peter and Clement as the exclusive stewards of prophetic knowledge, which has been handed down to them by Jesus. This analysis reveals that the Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions is not a jumbled collection of earlier source materials, as previous interpreters have thought, but a coherent narrative concerned primarily with epistemological issues. The author understands the Recognitions as a reflection of complex rivalries between several types of Christian and non-Christian groups such as that found in fourth-century Antioch or Edessa.

The Apocryphal Jesus

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Each of the surviving apocryphal acts of the apostles make one apostle its hero, but they don't disparage the other apostles. However, the Pseudo-Clementine texts present a dramatic fight surrounding the early Church.

The Apocryphal Jesus

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Each of the surviving apocryphal acts of the apostles make one apostle its hero, but they don't disparage the other apostles. However, the Pseudo-Clementine texts present a dramatic fight surrounding the early Church. This theological mess may pose a problem for historians, but it is nonetheless an important piece of early Christian literature.

The Sacred Writings of Pseudo Clementine Literature

by Clement I.

"The Sacred Writings Of ..." provides you with the essential works among the Early Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until before the promulgation of the Nicene Creed at the First Council of Nicaea.

The Sacred Writings of Pseudo Clementine Literature

Author: Clement I.

Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag

ISBN: 3849621472

Page: 851

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"The Sacred Writings Of ..." provides you with the essential works among the Early Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until before the promulgation of the Nicene Creed at the First Council of Nicaea. Every single volume is accurately annotated, including * an extensive biography of the author and his life The name "Pseudo-Clementine Literature" (or, more briefly, "Clementina" ) is applied to a series of writings, closely resembling each other, purporting to emanate from the great Roman Father. But, as Dr. Schaff remarks, in this literature he is evidently confounded with "Flavius Clement, kinsman of the Emperor Domitian." These writings are two in number: (1) the Recognitions, of which only the Latin translation of Rufinus has been preserved; (2) the Homilies, twenty in number, of which a complete collection has been known since 1853. Other writings may be classed with these; but they are of the same general character, except that most of them show the influence of a later age, adapting the material more closely to the orthodox doctrine.

Jewish Christian Interpretation of the Pentateuch in the Pseudo Clementine Homilies

by Donald H. Carlson

Carlson's interest here is in the highly unusual theory expressed in the Homilies that the Pentateuch is saturated with false pericopes, and that the teaching of Jesus, the true prophet, is the criterion for establishing what the Pentateuch ...

Jewish Christian Interpretation of the Pentateuch in the Pseudo Clementine Homilies

Author: Donald H. Carlson

Publisher: Fortress Press

ISBN: 1451469675

Page: 224

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The pseudo-Clementine writings are one of the most intriguing and valuable sources for early Jewish Christianity. They offer a second- or third-century polemic against the form of Christianity that eventually won out, the Gentile-majority, law-free Christianity that took Paul as its champion. Carlson's interest here is in the highly unusual theory expressed in the Homilies that the Pentateuch is saturated with false pericopes, and that the teaching of Jesus, the true prophet, is the criterion for establishing what the Pentateuch really means.

Jewish Christianity and the History of Judaism

by Annette Yoshiko Reed

testation.11 This shift in orientation has inspired a new appreciation of the
Pseudo-Clementines as evidence for late antique Christian attempts to grapple
with the perils and prestige of “pagan” culture. Where earlier research sought the
lost ...

Jewish Christianity and the History of Judaism

Author: Annette Yoshiko Reed

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

ISBN: 3161544765

Page: 535

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"Jewish-Christianity" is a contested category in current research. But for precisely this reason, it may offer a powerful lens through which to rethink the history of Jewish/Christian relations. Traditionally, Jewish-Christianity has been studied as part of the origins and early diversity of Christianity. Collecting revised versions of previously published articles together with new materials, Annette Yoshiko Reed reconsiders Jewish-Christianity in the context of Late Antiquity and in conversation with Jewish studies. She brings further attention to understudied texts and traditions from Late Antiquity that do not fit neatly into present day notions of Christianity as distinct from Judaism. In the process, she uses these materials to probe the power and limits of our modern assumptions about religion and identity.

Histories of the Hidden God

by April D DeConick

These striking views illumine a community behind the Pseudo-Clementine
writings that has been largely lost to ... to the heuristic categories to which we
may have become accustomed; when it comes to situating the Pseudo-
Clementines ...

Histories of the Hidden God

Author: April D DeConick

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 1134936060

Page: 368

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In Western religious traditions, God is conventionally conceived as a humanlike creator, lawgiver, and king, a being both accessible and actively present in history. Yet there is a concurrent and strong tradition of a God who actively hides. The two traditions have led to a tension between a God who is simultaneously accessible to humanity and yet inaccessible, a God who is both immanent and transcendent, present and absent. Western Gnostic, esoteric, and mystical thinking capitalizes on the hidden and hiding God. He becomes the hallmark of the mystics, Gnostics, sages, and artists who attempt to make accessible to humans the God who is secreted away. 'Histories of the Hidden God' explores this tradition from antiquity to today. The essays focus on three essential themes: the concealment of the hidden God; the human quest for the hidden God, and revelations of the hidden God.

The Taming of the Canaanite Woman

by Nancy Klancher

In particular, the Pseudo-Clementine constructions of the Canaanite woman
reveal much about earlier understandings of ... the three primary texts of the
Pseudo-Clementines—Recognitions, Homilies and the Epitome—prompt a kind
of initial ...

The Taming of the Canaanite Woman

Author: Nancy Klancher

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

ISBN: 3110321386

Page: 327

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Current reception histories emphasize the world of Biblical readers, their socio-historical contexts, and the myriad effects of Biblical exegesis. This reception history studies interpretations of Jesus’ encounter with a Canaanite woman (Matt 15:21–28) as normative “scripts” that exhort specific types of compliance in a broad range of historical and cultural settings, revealing remarkably diverse understandings of Christian identity and community.

Novel Hermeneutics in the Greek Pseudo Clementine Romance

by Patricia A. Duncan

The novel is well known for its distinctive doctrine of "false pericopes" in the scriptures of the Jews, but equally important is the way it capitalizes on its narrative genre to correct false pericopes in the Gospels of the New Testament.

Novel Hermeneutics in the Greek Pseudo Clementine Romance

Author: Patricia A. Duncan

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ISBN: 9783161552656

Page: 204

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Patricia A. Duncan examines the fourth-century Christian novel traditionally known as the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies (but here referred to as the Klementia) in order to show how the lengthy and complex narrative coheres as a rhetorical whole and works to initiate the reader into a revised, esoteric vision of the origins of Christianity. The novel is well known for its distinctive doctrine of "false pericopes" in the scriptures of the Jews, but equally important is the way it capitalizes on its narrative genre to correct false pericopes in the Gospels of the New Testament. Key to the novel's project is a construction of the apostle Peter as the chief tradent and the fully authorized interpreter of the words and deeds of the True Prophet Jesus. This Peter offers up oa a law-abiding, monotheistic "Christianity" that is fully coninuous with the religion of the followers of Moses.

Christian Apocrypha

by Tobias Nicklas

Among these, a relevant role is played, in DeConick's reconstruction, by the
Pseudo-Clementines, which are used both as ... would frequently be similar to
those offered by Thomas on the same sayings.2 In assessing the Pseudo-
Clementine ...

Christian Apocrypha

Author: Tobias Nicklas

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

ISBN: 3525540167

Page: 352

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Narrative receptions of New Testament texts in ancient Christian apocryphal literature.

Playing a Jewish Game

by Michele Murray

This chapter investigates three early Christian documents from the Syrian region
that range in date from the late first century to the middle of the second century ce
: the Epistle ofBarnabas, the Didache, and the Pseudo-Clementine literature.

Playing a Jewish Game

Author: Michele Murray

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

ISBN: 0889204012

Page: 221

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Is it possible that early Christian anti-Judaism was directed toward people other than Jews? Michele Murray proposes that significant strands of early Christian anti-Judaism were directed against Gentile Christians. More specifically, it was directed toward Gentile Christian judaizers. These were Christians who combined a commitment to Christianity with adherence in varying degrees to Jewish practices, without viewing such behaviour as contradictory. Several Christian leaders thought that these community members dangerously blurred the boundaries between Christianity and Judaism. As such, Gentile Christian judaizers became the target of much anti-Jewish rhetoric in various early Christian writings. Evidence of Gentile Christian judaizers can be found in canonical sources, such as Pauls Letter to the Galatians and the Book of Revelation, as well as non-canonical sources, such as the Epistle of Barnabas, the Didache, and Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho. In order to compare the phenomenon of judaizing and the reaction to it of ecclesiastical authorities, Murray organizes the evidence by probable geographical location, using Asia Minor and Syria as the two main loci. The phenomenon of Gentile Christian judaizing is examined within the broader context of Jewish-Christian relations in the early centuries, and is the first attempt to draw all possible references to Gentile Christian judaizers together into one study to consider them as a whole. This discussion invites readers to reflect on the existence of Gentile Christian judaizers as another point on the continuum of Jewish-Christian relations in the Greco-Roman world — an area, Murray concludes, that needs to be more carefully defined.

Just James

by John Painter

THE PSEUDO - CLEMENTINES : BISHOP OF BISHOPS IN THE CHURCH OF
THE HEBREWS In their present form the Pseudo - Clementines are not earlier
than the late fourth century . They are in two main parts , the Homilies and the ...

Just James

Author: John Painter

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

ISBN: 9781570035234

Page: 399

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A second edition of Just James became necessary with the announcement of the discovery of a Jewish ossuary, or burial box, inscribed in Aramaic with the words, as commonly translated, James son of Joseph brother of Jesus. Through the publicity surrounding the controversial discovery many people are now aware that Jesus of Nazareth had a famous brother named James. How does the ossuary relate to understanding that James and that Jesus? This work sets out the varied considerations concerning this question while providing access to the early sources concerning James. In the process John Painter buttresses the case for recognizing James as the direct successor to Jesus and the leader of the original Christian movement in Jerusalem.

Jews Christians and Jewish Christians in Antiquity

by James Carleton Paget

Chapter 13 Pseudo - Clementine Homilies 4 - 6 : rare evidence of a Jewish
literary source from the second century C . E . ? Introduction To a considerable
degree the history of Pseudo - Clementine research has been the history of the
quest ...

Jews Christians and Jewish Christians in Antiquity

Author: James Carleton Paget

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

ISBN: 9783161503122

Page: 538

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The book, which consists of some previously published and unpublished essays, examines a variety of issues relevant to the study of ancient Judaism and Christianity and their interaction, including polemic, proselytism, biblical interpretation, messianism, the phenomenon normally described as Jewish Christianity, and the fate of the Jewish community after the Bar Kokhba revolt, a period of considerable importance for the emergence not only of Judaism but also of Christianity. The volume, typically for a collection of essays, does not lay out a particular thesis. If anything binds the collection together, it is the author's attempt to set out the major fault lines in current debate about these disputed subjects, and in the process to reveal their complex and entangled character.

Baptism in the Early Church

by Everett Ferguson

Composite 140 lpi at 45 degrees The Pseudo-Clementines and Jewish
Christianity | 255 made like me in all things and, receiving baptism [baptisjŸnta],
to share the same table with me” (Hom. 1.22).29 Omitting the items mentioned
only once ...

Baptism in the Early Church

Author: Everett Ferguson

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

ISBN: 0802827489

Page: 953

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This magisterial volume is a comprehensive survey of the doctrine and practice of baptism in the first five centuries of Christian history, arranged geographically within chronological periods. Baptism in the Early Church covers the antecedents to Christian baptism and traces the history of Christian doctrine and practice from the New Testament through the writings of the church fathers of the fourth and fifth centuries. The book deals primarily with the literary sources, though it also gives attention to depictions of baptism (primarily of Jesus) in various art forms and to the surviving baptismal fonts.Ferguson's thorough study points to the central importance of baptism in the early church. Many blessings were attributed to baptism, but the two earliest and most consistently mentioned are forgiveness of sins and the reception of the Holy Spirit; faith and repentance were necessary in order to receive these benefits. Jewish immersion rites, the practice of John the Baptist, the meaning of the words used for baptism, the literary descriptions, and the material remains argue that full immersion was the normal practice, and the evidence from art is consistent with this interpretation.Containing nearly everything currently known about the early Christian ritual of baptism, with extensive citations to the primary and secondary literature, Ferguson's Baptism in the Early Church is destined to be a standard reference work."

A Companion to Second Century Christian Heretics

by Antti Marjanen

JEWISH CHRISTIANITY OF THE PSEUDO-CLEMENTINES F. Stanley Jones
Around 220 C.E. a Syrian Jewish Christian composed a fascinating novel about
the origins of Christianity. Set in the year that encompasses the death of Christ,
the ...

A Companion to Second Century Christian Heretics

Author: Antti Marjanen

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9004170383

Page: 385

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The book deals with thinkers and movements that were embraced by many second-century religious seekers but which are now largely forgotten or known only as "heretics": Basilides, Sethianism, Valentinus' school, Marcion, Tatian, Bardaisan, Montanists, Cerinthus, Ebionites, Nazarenes, Jewish-Christianity of the "Pseudo-Clementines," and Elchasites.

Early Christian Authors on Samaritans and Samaritanism

by Reinhard Pummer

Pseudo - Clementines Fourth century The Pseudo - Clementines are apocryphal
writings that were ascribed to Clement I , the second or third bishop of Rome after
Peter . They relate the conversion of Clement to Christianity by Peter as well as ...

Early Christian Authors on Samaritans and Samaritanism

Author: Reinhard Pummer

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

ISBN: 9783161478314

Page: 518

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Samaritanism is an outgrowth of Early Judaism that has survived until today. Its origin as a separate religious entity can be traced back to the 2nd/1st centuries B.C.E. Samaritans were found not only in their core-area in and around Shechem-Neapolis (modern Nablus) and on neighboring Mount Gerizim, but also in other parts of Palestine as well as in various other Mediterranean countries. Oppression at the hand of Jews, Christians and Muslims decimated the Samaritan population and obliterated all Samaritan manuscripts written prior to the 10th/11th centuries C.E. For the early period of Samaritanism we must therefore rely on Christian authors.Reinhard Pummer edits Christian Greek and Latin texts about Samaritans and their beliefs and practices, dating from the second century C.E. to the Arab conquests. The passages are quoted in their original language and translated into English. In addition, they are commented on and analyzed in view of their significance for our knowledge of Samaritanism within the wider framework of early Judaism and Christianity.

An Introduction to the New Testament Apocrypha

by F. Lapham

It would certainly seem to be the case that these two short documents were
composed at the time of the compilation of the Pseudo-Clementine corpus; and
we need now to determine what sources the compiler had at his disposal.
Epiphanius ...

An Introduction to the New Testament Apocrypha

Author: F. Lapham

Publisher: A&C Black

ISBN: 9780826469786

Page: 193

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This book is a readable and analytical survey of those important but little-known Christian documents of the second and third centuries which are collectively referred to as the New Testament Apocrypha, and is intended to serve both as an introductory guide for interested clergy and laity, but also as a useful reference for those pursuing higher research. Questions of the manufacture of the codices, the transmission of the texts, the discovery of the lost and hidden books, and of the classification of the documents are considered, and the books are placed and critically examined in their geographical and social setting.