To Cast the First Stone (eBook)

The Transmission of a Gospel Story

Jennifer Knust, Tommy Wasserman (Autoren)

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2018
464 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18446-3 (ISBN)

Infos

The story of the woman taken in adultery features a dramatic confrontation between Jesus and the Pharisees over whether the adulteress should be stoned as the law commands. In response, Jesus famously states, ';Let him who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.' To Cast the First Stone traces the history of this provocative story from its first appearance to its enduring presence today.Likely added to the Gospel of John in the third century, the passage is often held up by modern critics as an example of textual corruption by early Christian scribes and editors, yet a judgment of corruption obscures the warm embrace the story actually received. Jennifer Knust and Tommy Wasserman trace the story's incorporation into Gospel books, liturgical practices, storytelling, and art, overturning the mistaken perception that it was either peripheral or suppressed, even in the Greek East. The authors also explore the story's many different meanings. Taken as an illustration of the expansiveness of Christ's mercy, the purported superiority of Christians over Jews, the necessity of penance, and more, this vivid episode has invited any number of creative receptions. This history reveals as much about the changing priorities of audiences, scribes, editors, and scholars as it does about an ';original' text of John.To Cast the First Stone calls attention to significant shifts in Christian book cultures and the enduring impact of oral tradition on the preservationand destabilizationof scripture.

Autor

Jennifer Knust is associate professor of New Testament and Christian origins at Boston University. Her books include Unprotected Texts: The Bible’s Surprising Contradictions about Sex and Desire. Tommy Wasserman is professor of Biblical studies at Ansgar Teologiske Høgskole in Norway. His books include The Epistle of Jude: Its Text and Transmission.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.11.2018
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Schlagworte: Abbreviation • adulteress • adulterous women • adultery • Allusion • ancient scribes • Anecdote • Apostolic Constitutions • Asceticism • Augustine of Hippo • Barbara Aland • Bible • Biblical Criticism • biblical scholars • Bibliography • Book • Byzantine scribes • Byzantine Texts • Calendar of saints • Cambridge University Press • Capitula • Carolingian period • Cassiodorus • Censorship • chapter headings • chapter summaries • Christian • Christian art • Christian Humanism • Christian interpretation • Christianity • Christian mercy • Christians • Christian scribes • Christian theology • Christian tradition • Church Fathers • Clement of Alexandria • Codex Bezae • Codex Rehdigeranus • Codex Sinaiticus • copying • corrector • Critical edition (opera) • Development of the New Testament canon • Diatessaron • Didascalia Apostolorum • didymus the blind • Doctor of the Church • Easter • Epistle • Exegesis • female sinner saints • fourfold Gospels • Gospel • Gospel harmony • Gospel interpretation • Gospel of John • Gospel of the Hebrews • Gospel production • Gospels • Gospel translation • Greek New Testament • Hebrews • Heresy • Hilary of Poitiers • homily • irenaeus • Jerome • Jesus • Jesus and the woman taken in adultery • Jews • J. (newspaper) • Johannine pericope • John Chrysostom • Justin Martyr • Kephalaia • Ketuvim • Late Antiquity • Latin Christian writings • Latin West • Lection • Lectionary • Lent • Literature • liturgical habits • liturgical reading • Liturgy • Manuscript • Mark 16 • martyr • Michael W. Holmes • modern scholarship • modern textual criticism • New Revised Standard Version • New Testament • Nomina sacra • Novum Testamentum Graece • Old Greek • old Latin • Old Latin Gospels • Old Latin manuscripts • Old Testament • Origen • Ottonian period • Oxford University Press • Parchment • pauline epistles • pericope • pericope adulterae • pharisees • preface • Preface (liturgy) • Princeton University Press • Protestantism • Psalms • Publication • Redaction • religious text • Repentance • repentant prostitutes • Saint Pelagia • Scribe • Sedulius • Septuagint • Sermon • Sexuality in ancient Rome • sexual misconduct • Sin • Society of Biblical Literature • Storytelling • suppression theory • Susanna (Book of Daniel) • Synoptic Gospels • Tatian • Tertullian • Testaments • textual corruption • Textual criticism • Textual criticism of the New Testament • textual deletion • textual diversity • Textual Editing • Textus Receptus • Theology • The Shepherd of Hermas • Vulgate Gospels • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18446-1 / 0691184461
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18446-3 / 9780691184463