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Gospels before the Book

Autor Matthew D. C. Larsen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 sep 2018

Lucrarea Gospels before the Book aduce o perspectivă radicală și necesară în studiile biblice, propunând o deconstrucție a modului în care înțelegem apariția textelor sacre. Considerăm că principala contribuție a lui Matthew D. C. Larsen este demonstrarea faptului că, înainte de sfârșitul secolului al II-lea, evangheliile nu erau percepute ca „cărți” finite, publicate de autori distincți, ci ca entități textuale fluide. Autorul utilizează conceptul antic de hypomnmata pentru a redefini Evanghelia după Marcu nu ca un volum finalizat, ci ca o colecție deschisă de note și materiale de lucru.

Această abordare schimbă fundamental modul în care analizăm relația dintre evangheliile sinoptice. În loc să privim Evanghelia după Matei ca pe o operă independentă care a „copiat” un autor anterior, Larsen ne invită să o vedem ca pe o continuare organică a aceleiași tradiții neterminate. Volumul explorează riguros mecanismele culturii textuale antice, de la publicările accidentale până la revizuirile succesive, oferind o explicație istorică solidă pentru variațiile textuale care au nedumerit cercetătorii timp de secole.

Comparabil cu The Living Text of the Gospels de D. C. Parker în rigurozitatea analizei manuscriselor, studiul lui Larsen merge mai departe, fiind actualizat pentru noile înțelegeri ale practicilor de scriere și lectură din perioada greco-romană. Dacă D. C. Parker se concentra pe existența fizică a manuscriselor, Larsen recalibrează întreaga metodologie de receptare, eliminând anacronismele impuse de era tiparului asupra textelor primare. Rezultatul este un sistem de referință care transformă „erorile” sau „finalurile multiple” ale lui Marcu în dovezi ale unei practici literare legitime și dinamice.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190848583
ISBN-10: 0190848588
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 163 x 239 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și studenților la teologie care doresc să depășească interpretările tradiționale ale formării Noului Testament. Cititorul va câștiga o înțelegere profundă a modului în care textele creștine timpurii au circulat ca procese, nu ca produse finite. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege de ce evangheliile sinoptice seamănă atât de mult între ele, oferind un argument istoric convingător împotriva conceptelor moderne de plagiat sau autorat.


Despre autor

Matthew D. C. Larsen este un cercetător specializat în creștinismul timpuriu și cultura textuală a antichității târzii. Prin lucrarea sa publicată la Oxford University Press, el s-a impus ca o voce inovatoare în analiza evangheliilor sinoptice. Expertiza sa se concentrează pe intersecția dintre istoria cărții, arheologia literară și exegeza biblică. Contribuția sa în Gospels before the Book a fost primită cu entuziasm de comunitatea academică, fiind considerată una dintre cele mai convingătoare soluții la problemele vechi de secole privind relația dintre Marcu și Matei.


Descriere

What does it look like to read the texts we now call the gospels like first- and second-century readers? There is no evidence of anyone regarding the gospel as a book published by an author until the end of the second century. So, put differently, what does it mean to read the gospels "before the book"? For centuries, the ways people discuss the gospels have been shaped by later ideas that have more to do with the printing press and modern notions of the author thanancient writing and reading practices. In Gospels before the Book, Matthew D. C. Larsen challenges several subtle yet problematic assumptions about authors, books, and publication at work in early Christian studies. He then explores a host of under-appreciated elements of ancient textual culturesuch as unfinished texts, accidental publication, post-publication revision, and the existence of multiple authorized versions of the same work. Turning to the gospels, he argues that the earliest readers and users of the text we now call the Gospel according to Mark treated it not as a book published by an author, but as an unfinished, open, and fluid collection of notes (hypomnmata). In such a scenario, the Gospel according to Matthew would not be regarded as a separate bookpublished by a different author, but as a continuation of the same unfinished gospel tradition. Similarly it is not the case that, of the five different endings in the textual tradition we now call the Gospel according to Mark, one is "right" and the others are "wrong." Rather each represents its own effort to fill aperceived deficiency in the gospel. Larsen offers a new methodological framework for future scholarship on early Christian gospels.


Recenzii

How often does it happen that you read something new and convincing that solves a large and centuries old problem, especially on such an overpublished field as the New Testament Gospels? This book does that! It is probably the best book on the Gospel of Mark and the synoptic Gospels in general, since they were written. It is a truly groundbreaking book that offers a novel and fully convincing interpretation of the Gospel of Mark, namely as incomplete archival notes.The argument is well-crafted, based just as much in deep knowledge of a wide range of sources (Jewish, Greek, Roman, Christian) as in sophisticated critical scholarship. This work is a field changer and will be the foundation for future gospel studies.
...this book is an important dialogue partner for pressing scholarly inquiry into the nature of early Christian writing.
Without question, this is an excellent book. Larsen's writing is crisp, succinct, and evocative. His analysis is fresh and direct. I often find myself wondering, "How'd this guy find all these case studies?"-and every answer I can imagine requires exceptional diligence and ingenuity.
This book exemplifies and is itself facilitating a paradigm shift in gospel studies.No longer can interpreters approach the gospels without duly considering what kind of text it is that they are handling.
[an] elegantly written volume ... An invaluable resource for those seeking a clearer understanding of ancient literature, including (but by no means limited to) religious texts ... Highly recommended.
I commend this book to a wide reading audience, especially within the guild. All serious readers of Mark -- especially those of us who read it as story -- should engage this book. It invites fresh consideration of the emergence of the Gospel tradition in textual form.
With Gospels before the Book, Matthew Larsen offers a crucial intervention in studies of the Christian Gospels. As he demonstrates, anachronistic assumptions about the closed character of books and a persistent investment in the "genius of the author" have led modern scholars to miss an important fact: the Gospels, and Mark in particular, were not regarded as closed texts by early Christian readers. Instead, they were received as unfinished instantiations of a continuous and fluid gospel tradition that remained open to expansion and revision by later writers interested in "publishing" (in an ancient sense) books of their own. Larsen's stunning investigation will forever change the ways that biblical scholars, historians, and textual critics approach texts we thought we knew.
It is rare that one reads a work of scholarship that changes the terms of engagement for an entire field of study, but that is exactly what Matthew Larsen has done in his Gospels before the Book. In this deeply textured study, he dismantles a host of unhelpful assumptions operative in New Testament studies about ancient authors and the status of ancient books as published documents. You'll never view the Gospels the same way again.

Notă biografică

Matthew Larsen is a Lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University. He is a cultural historian of religion whose work focuses on the lived experiences of Jewish and Christian communities in antiquity and late antiquity. Matthew's research has been published in the Journal for the Study of Judaism, the Journal for the Study of the New Testament, and various other venues.