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Beyond Canon: Early Christianity and the Ethiopic Textual Tradition

by Meron Gebreananaye, Francis Watson

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.1 cm

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This book highlights the significance of a group of five texts excluded from the standard Christian Bible and preserved only in Ge'ez, the classical language of Ethiopia. These texts are crucial for modern scholars due to their significance for a wide range of early readers, as extant fragments of other early translations confirm in most cases. Yet they are also noted for their eventual marginalization and abandonment, as a more restrictive understanding of the biblical canon prevailed - everywhere except in Ethiopia, with its distinctive Christian tradition in which the concept of a "closed canon" is alien.

In focusing upon 1 Enoch, Jubilees, the Ascension of Isaiah, the Epistula Apostolorum, and the Apocalypse of Peter, the contributors to this volume group them together as representatives of a time in early Christian history when sacred texts were not limited by a sharply defined canonical boundary. In doing so, this book also highlights the unique and under-appreciated contribution of the Ethiopic Christian Tradition to the study of early Christianity.

Beyond Canon: Early Christianity and the Ethiopic Textual Tradition and The Next Quest for the Historical Jesus
The Next Quest for the Historical JesusBeyond Canon: Early Christianity and the Ethiopic Textual Tradition

  • Author

    Francis Watson

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

  • Published

    August 2022

  • Weight

    273g

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780567697653

  • ISBN-10

    0567697657

  • Eden Code

    5613546

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