Canonization And Decanonization

Author : Toorn,A. van der Kooij
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004379060

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Canonization and Decanonization by Toorn,A. van der Kooij Pdf

This volume contains the papers read at the Leiden Conference on Canonization and Decanonization of 9-10 January 1997. The emphasis in this rich and wide-ranging contribution to the subject is on the processes of canonization and decanonization in several religions and on the phenomenon of religious canons as well. It has two sections: (De)canonization and the History of Religions, and (De)canonization and Modern Society. In the first section processes out of which canons eventually emerge are highlighted in contributions devoted to particular religions, viz. African religions, Judaism and Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Zoroastrianism. The articles of the second section are of particular relevance to the contemporary situation in the western world, dealing with aspects such as forms of the survival of a canon in processes of modernization, canonization and the challenge of plurality, and canonization and hermeneutics. The reader may benefit even more from this volume as it contains also An Annotated Bibliography on the subject.

Author : A Van Debeek,Karel Van Der Toorn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004112464

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Canonization and Decanonization by A Van Debeek,Karel Van Der Toorn Pdf

This volume is the most wide-ranging religio-historical study on (de)canonization ever published. It contains significant contributions to the study of canonization in different religions in ancient times as well as in modern societies. An Annotated Bibliography adds greatly to its value.

Author : Frederick William Faber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Beatification
ISBN : OXFORD:590350443

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An Essay on Beatification, Canonization, and the Processes of the Congregation of Rites by Frederick William Faber Pdf

Author : E. Gallagher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781137434838

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Reading and Writing Scripture in New Religious Movements by E. Gallagher Pdf

New religious movements both read the Bible in creative ways and produce their own texts that aspire to scriptural status. From the creation stories in Genesis and the Ten Commandments to the life of Jesus and the apocalypse, they develop their self-understandings through reading and writing scripture.

Author : Susan Ashbrook Harvey,David G. Hunter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191556616

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The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies by Susan Ashbrook Harvey,David G. Hunter Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies responds to and celebrates the explosion of research in this inter-disciplinary field over recent decades. As a one-volume reference work, it provides an introduction to the academic study of early Christianity (c. 100-600 AD) and examines the vast geographical area impacted by the early church, in western and eastern late antiquity. It is thematically arranged to encompass history, literature, thought, practices, and material culture. It contains authoritative and up-to-date surveys of current thinking and research in the various sub-specialties of early Christian studies, written by leading figures in the discipline. The essays orientate readers to a given topic, as well as to the trajectory of research developments over the past 30-50 years within the scholarship itself. Guidance for future research is also given. Each essay points the reader towards relevant forms of extant evidence (texts, documents, or examples of material culture), as well as to the appropriate research tools available for the area. This volume will be useful to advanced undergraduate and post-graduate students, as well as to specialists in any area who wish to consult a brief review of the 'state of the question' in a particular area or sub-specialty of early Christian studies, especially one different from their own.

Author : Leiden Institute for the Study of Religions. International Conference
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9004112464

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Canonization and Decanonization by Leiden Institute for the Study of Religions. International Conference Pdf

Author : Ahmed El Shamsy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107435674

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The Canonization of Islamic Law by Ahmed El Shamsy Pdf

The Canonization of Islamic Law tells the story of the birth of classical Islamic law in the eighth and ninth centuries CE. It shows how an oral normative tradition embedded in communal practice was transformed into a systematic legal science defined by hermeneutic analysis of a clearly demarcated scriptural canon. This transformation was inaugurated by the innovative legal theory of Muhammad b. Idrīs al-Shāfi'ī (d. 820 CE), and it took place against the background of a crisis of identity and religious authority in ninth-century Egypt. By tracing the formulation, reception, interpretation and spread of al-Shāfi'ī's ideas, the author demonstrates how the canonization of scripture that lay at the heart of al-Shāfi'ī's theory formed the basis for the emergence of legal hermeneutics, the formation of the Sunni schools of law, and the creation of a shared methodological basis in Muslim thought.

Author : Jonathan Brown
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004158399

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The Canonization of Al-Bukh?r? and Muslim by Jonathan Brown Pdf

Drawing on canon studies, this book investigates the origins, development and functions of the core of the Sunni ?ad?th canon, the 'Authentic' ?ad?th collections of al-Bukh?r? and Muslim, from the time of their authors to the modern period.

Author : Giuseppe Veltri
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047409014

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Libraries, Translations, and 'Canonic' Texts by Giuseppe Veltri Pdf

The book deals with the process of canonization of the Greek Torah; the use and abuse of the translation(s) of Aquila in Patristic and Rabbinic literature and the substitution of Aquila by Onkelos in Babylonian academies.

Author : Julius Steinberg,Timothy J. Stone
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575063744

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The Shape of the Writings by Julius Steinberg,Timothy J. Stone Pdf

Are the Writings a miscellaneous collection of books, as is so often asserted, or do they have a purposeful design or arrangement? Over the past 35 years, there has been a significant amount of scholarly interest in the shape of the Law, Former Prophets, Twelve Minor Prophets and the Psalms, while examinations of the shape of the Writings were almost nonexistent until very recently. The 11 essays in this volume explore this often-neglected issue from a variety of critical perspectives—reader-centered approaches, canonical, structural-canonical, and redactional—made more robust by the mix of German- and English-language scholarship on this question, including 4 articles translated from German into English. Essays range from the historical development of the collection, to analysis of the collection’s different arrangements, to the relationship of books and subcollections within the Writings, to the reception of the collection in Jewish and Christian sources. Every book in the Writings is discussed, with particular attention given to Job, Ruth, and 1 and 2 Chronicles. The volume closes with 3 critical responses from John Barton, Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, and Christopher Seitz.

Author : Jonathan Cahana-Blum,Karmen MacKendrick
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788771849370

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We and They by Jonathan Cahana-Blum,Karmen MacKendrick Pdf

The articles collected in this volume share a very similar goal: to decolonize our understanding of antiquity, thus allowing modernity to converse with antiquity without constraining the latter to be either the direct precedent or the thoroughly other of the former. It is certainly true that the past is a foreign country. However, history has repeatedly demonstrated that colonialism never contributed to mutual understanding and constructive exchange of ideas, and that such is the dialogue we should strive forthwith our contemporaries as well as with our ancestors.

Author : Timothy Stanley
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506423296

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Writing Faith by Timothy Stanley Pdf

Current digital transformations of information technology have given rise to an explosion of scholarly interest in the history of the book. Although this research has focused predominantly on the rise of movable type after Gutenberg, the second-to-fifth-century-CE transition from scroll to codex warrants renewed attention. Here, a peculiar footnote comes to the fore: Christians were early adopters of the codex for their sacred scriptures. In Writing Faith, Timothy Stanley begins with a novel investigation into Jacques Derrida’s unanswered question concerning the mediatic nature of Christianity. There, the relationship between writing and faith comes into sharper focus. It is in this light that the codex’s cosmopolitan capacity for transmitting the written word can be re-evaluated in its scrolled Greco-Roman and Jewish bibliographic contexts. Christian faith is bound up in this technical development, and can inform how religious mediation is understood after Derrida. Writing Faith aims to recover vital questions for today’s digital times.

Author : Lee Martin McDonald,James A. Sanders
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441241634

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The Canon Debate by Lee Martin McDonald,James A. Sanders Pdf

What does it mean to speak of a "canon" of scripture? How, when, and where did the canon of the Hebrew Bible come into existence? Why does it have three divisions? What canon was in use among the Jews of the Hellenistic diaspora? At Qumran? In Roman Palestine? Among the rabbis? What Bible did Jesus and his disciples know and use? How was the New Testament canon formed and closed? What role was played by Marcion? By gnostics? By the church fathers? What did the early church make of the apocrypha and pseudepigrapha? By what criteria have questions of canonicity been decided? Are these past decisions still meaningful faith communities today? Are they open to revision? These and other debated questions are addressed by an international roster of outstanding experts on early Judaism and early Christianity, writing from diverse affiliations and perspectives, who present the history of discussion and offer their own assessments of the current status. Contributors William Adler, Peter Balla, John Barton, Joseph Blenkinsopp, François Bovon, Kent D. Clarke, Philip R. Davies, James D. G. Dunn, Eldon Jay Epp, Craig A. Evans, William R. Farmer, Everett Ferguson, Robert W. Funk, Harry Y. Gamble, Geoffrey M. Hahneman, Daniel J. Harrington, Everett R. Kalin, Robert A. Kraft, Jack P. Lewis, Jack N. Lightstone, Steve Mason, Lee M. McDonald, Pheme Perkins, James A. Sanders, Daryl D. Schmidt, Albert C. Sundberg Jr., Emanuel Tov, Julio Trebolle-Barrera, Eugene Ulrich, James C. VanderKam, Robert W. Wall.

Author : Edmon L. Gallagher,John D. Meade
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192511027

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The Biblical Canon Lists from Early Christianity by Edmon L. Gallagher,John D. Meade Pdf

The Bible took shape over the course of centuries, and today Christian groups continue to disagree over details of its contents. The differences among these groups typically involve the Old Testament, as they mostly accept the same 27-book New Testament. An essential avenue for understanding the development of the Bible are the many early lists of canonical books drawn up by Christians and, occasionally, Jews. Despite the importance of these early lists of books, they have remained relatively inaccessible. This comprehensive volume redresses this unfortunate situation by presenting the early Christian canon lists all together in a single volume. The canon lists, in most cases, unambiguously report what the compilers of the lists considered to belong to the biblical canon. For this reason they bear an undeniable importance in the history of the Bible. The Biblical Canon Lists from Early Christianity provides an accessible presentation of these early canon lists. With a focus on the first four centuries, the volume supplies the full text of the canon lists in English translation alongside the original text, usually Greek or Latin, occasionally Hebrew or Syriac. Edmon L. Gallagher and John D. Meade orient readers to each list with brief introductions and helpful notes, and they point readers to the most significant scholarly discussions. The book begins with a substantial overview of the history of the biblical canon, and an entire chapter is devoted to the evidence of biblical manuscripts from the first millennium. This authoritative work is an indispensable guide for students and scholars of biblical studies and church history.

Author : Timothy H. Lim
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300164343

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The Formation of the Jewish Canon by Timothy H. Lim Pdf

DIVThe discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls provides unprecedented insight into the nature of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament before its fixation. Timothy Lim here presents a complete account of the formation of the canon in Ancient Judaism from the emergence of the Torah in the Persian period to the final acceptance of the list of twenty-two/twenty-four books in the Rabbinic period./divDIV /divDIVUsing the Hebrew Bible, the Scrolls, the Apocrypha, the Letter of Aristeas, the writings of Philo, Josephus, the New Testament, and Rabbinic literature as primary evidence he argues that throughout the post-exilic period up to around 100 CE there was not one official “canon” accepted by all Jews; rather, there existed a plurality of collections of scriptures that were authoritative for different communities. Examining the literary sources and historical circumstances that led to the emergence of authoritative scriptures in ancient Judaism, Lim proposes a theory of the majority canon that posits that the Pharisaic canon became the canon of Rabbinic Judaism in the centuries after the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple./div