Connecting Gospels: Beyond the Canonical/Non-canonical Divide.
- Submitting institution
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University of Durham
- Unit of assessment
- 31 - Theology and Religious Studies
- Output identifier
- 112566
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1093/oso/9780198814801.001.0001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198814801
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814801.001.0001
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This edited volume originated in an invitation-only Colloquium held in Durham in July 2016, convened by Francis Watson in the context of the AHRC-funded project, “The Fourfold Gospel and its Rivals” in which he was the Principal Investigator. Nine leading scholars from the UK, Germany, Denmark, Australia and the USA participated in the Colloquium, accompanied in several cases by one or more of their PhD students. Sarah Parkhouse, who held a PhD studentship within the AHRC project, co-convened the colloquium and co-edited the volume. While Watson took overall responsibility for editorial decisions, the work was shared out equally; the Introduction was co-written, with pp. 1–6 drafted by Watson and pp. 7–11 by Parkhouse (who also contributed a chapter, the only PhD student to do so). The Colloquium was planned with a view to the book, which aims to substantiate the hypothesis that early gospel literature is interconnected, with common themes and motifs variously deployed, irrespective of whether the text concerned was or was not included in the four gospel collection. That collection came to the fore only in the later second century and retrospectively created a sharp divide between canonical gospels and their non-canonical counterparts, which were now stigmatised as “apocryphal” or heretical. Contributors to the volume had each published important work on both canonical and non-canonical gospels but were now asked to investigate the interconnectedness of the two categories, overcoming the artificial division perpetuated even in modern critical scholarship. The volume thus aims to bring neglected non-canonical texts into the mainstream of early Christian studies. This is exemplified by Watson’s individual contribution, focused on an important but little-known text dating from the mid-2nd century, the so-called Epistula Apostolorum, in relation to the post-resurrection narrative in the canonical Gospel of John.
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