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"But Their Faces Were All Looking Up": Author and Reader in the Protevangelium of James
Contributor(s): Eykel, Eric M. Vanden (Author)
ISBN: 0567682544     ISBN-13: 9780567682543
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
OUR PRICE:   $47.47  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - New Testament
- Religion | Biblical Studies - New Testament - General
Series: Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries
Physical Information: 0.46" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.69 lbs) 240 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
 
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This study of the Protevangelium of James explores the interrelationship of authors, readers, texts, and meaning. Its central aim is to better understand how the process of repetition gave rise to the narratives of the early Christian movement, and how that process continued to fuel the creativity and imagination of future generations. Divided into three parts, Vanden Eykel addresses first specific episodes in the life of the Virgin, consisting of Mary's childhood in the Jerusalem temple (PJ 7-9), her spinning thread for the temple veil (PJ 10-12), and Jesus' birth in a cave outside Bethlehem (PJ 17-20).

The three episodes present a uniform picture of how the reader's discernment of intertexts can generate new layers of meaning, and that these layers may reveal new aspects of the author's meaning, some of which the author may not have anticipated.

Contributor Bio(s): Eykel, Eric M. Vanden: - Eric M. Vanden Eykel is Assistant Professor of Religion at Ferrum College, USA.Keith, Chris: - Chris Keith is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity and Director of the Centre for the Social-Scientific Study of the Bible at St. Mary's University College, Twickenham, UK. He is the author of The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John and the Literacy of Jesus, a winner of the 2010 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, and Jesus' Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee. He is also the co-editor of Jesus among Friends and Enemies: A Historical and Literary Introduction to Jesus in the Gospels, and was recently named a 2012 Society of Biblical Literature Regional Scholar.