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Bishops and Books : = Literary Authenticity and Authority in Early Christianity.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Bishops and Books :/
Reminder of title:	Literary Authenticity and Authority in Early Christianity.
Author:	Koperski, Andrew R.
Description:	1 online resource (288 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-04A.
Subject:	History. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798380596404

Bishops and Books : = Literary Authenticity and Authority in Early Christianity.
Koperski, Andrew R.

Bishops and Books :Literary Authenticity and Authority in Early Christianity. - 1 online resource (288 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation examines early Christian literary hierarchies and categories, beginning in the pre-Christian context of the Hellenistic world and ending in the early Middle Ages. While scholars have long studied the formation of the biblical canon and the development of ancillary classes of text, such as the so-called "apocrypha," many accounts of this history struggle to evince how these intellectual and institutional categories changed over time, which tends to obscure early Christian intellectual nuance and circumspection. This project improves our understanding by rooting early Christian evaluation of sacred (or potentially sacred) literature in the literary criticism of the classical world. It finds that, over the course of centuries, early Christianity generally moved away from the question of textual authenticity to the question of theological authority. In many cases, this movement corresponded to the maturation of the institutional episcopacy, particularly in the post-Constantinian era. Consequently, while Hellenistic literary criticism had once provided the chief template for Christians to evaluate books, hierarchies of text became increasingly institutionalized and supposed to have been settled by earlier authorities. By the sixth century, some Christian commentators forgot the meaning of the older categories altogether.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798380596404Subjects--Topical Terms:

669538
History.
Subjects--Index Terms:

ApocryphaIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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