The New Testament: A Literary History
by Theissen, Gerd; Maloney, Linda M.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2011-12-01
Publisher(s): Augsburg Fortress Pub
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Summary
Gerd Theissen describes the emergence of the New Testament canon out of the wide variety of early Christian literature, drawing on Max Weber's discussion of the evolution of religious organizations. Theissen describes a series of phases in the life of the early Christian movement: the charismatic, the "pseudepigraphic," the "functional," and the "canonical."
Table of Contents
| List of Tables and Figures | p. xiii |
| Preface | p. xv |
| Introduction: The Problem of a Literary History of the New Testament | p. 1 |
| The Twofold Beginnings of a History of Early Christian Literature | |
| The Charismatic Beginnings of Gospel Literature in Jesus | |
| The Oral Prehistory of Early Christian Literature with the Historical Jesus | |
| The Beginning of the History of Early Christian Literature | p. 19 |
| Beginnings of Oral Tradition with the Historical Jesus? | p. 21 |
| Three Tradents of the Jesus Tradition after Easter | p. 25 |
| The Formal Language of Jesus' Proclamation | p. 27 |
| The Sayings Source Q | |
| The First Written Form of the Jesus Tradition | p. 32 |
| The Structure of Q | p. 34 |
| The Time of Q's Origins | p. 36 |
| The Tradition-Critical and Theological Location of Q | p. 37 |
| The Genre of Q: A Prophetic Book and More? | p. 40 |
| The Gospel of Mark | |
| The Second Written Form of the Jesus Tradition | p. 43 |
| The Structure of Mark's Gospel | p. 43 |
| Time and Place of Mark's Gospel | p. 48 |
| Genre: A Biography with a Public Claim | p. 53 |
| The Charismatic Phase of Paul's Epistolary Literature | |
| The Historical Conditions for Paul's Letters | p. 61 |
| The Pre-Pauline Oral Tradition | p. 64 |
| Jesus Traditions in Paul | p. 64 |
| Pre-Pauline Christological Formulae | p. 67 |
| The Pauline Letter as Literary Form | p. 69 |
| The Form-Critical Location of Paul's Letters: Models | p. 69 |
| Development from Letter of Friendship to Community Letter by Means of Liturgical Stylization | p. 74 |
| Development from Letter of Friendship to Community Letter by Means of Rhetorical Stylization | p. 78 |
| The Sequence and Development of the Pauline Letters | p. 82 |
| The Collection of Paul's Letters | p. 94 |
| The Sequence of Paul's Letters | p. 94 |
| Attestation of Paul's Letters | p. 95 |
| The Place Where Paul's Letters Were Collected | p. 99 |
| The Fictive Self-Interpretations of Paul and Jesus: The Pseudepigraphic Phase | |
| Pseudepigraphy as a Literary-Historical Phase in Early Christianity | p. 105 |
| Early Christian Pseudepigraphy between Jewish and Hellenistic Cultures | p. 109 |
| Early Christian Pseudepigraphy between Oral and Literary Cultures | p. 110 |
| Early Christian Pseudepigraphy between Educated Authors and Uneducated Addressees | p. 112 |
| Open Pseudepigraphy in Early Christianity? | p. 113 |
| Paul's Fictive Self-Interpretation in the Deutero-Pauline Writings | p. 116 |
| The Eschatological Theology of 2 Thessalonians | p. 117 |
| The Cosmic Wisdom Theology of Colossians and Ephesians | p. 118 |
| The Theology of Office in the Pastorals | p. 121 |
| Paul's Fictive Self-Correction in the Deutero-Pauline Letters | p. 123 |
| Excursus: The Correction of Paul by the Catholic Epistles | |
| Jesus' Fictive Self-Interpretation through the Redaction of the Jesus Traditions in the Synoptic Gospels | p. 130 |
| The Gospel of Mark | p. 132 |
| The Gospel of Matthew | p. 134 |
| The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles | p. 143 |
| Jesus' Fictive Self-Interpretation through the Transformation of the Jesus Traditions in the Gospels Associated with Gnosis | p. 155 |
| The Gospel of John | p. 156 |
| The Gospel of Thomas | p. 165 |
| The Gospel of the Egyptians | p. 167 |
| Jesus' Fictive Self-Interpretation through the Continuation of the Synoptic Jesus Tradition in the Jewish-Christian Gospels | p. 168 |
| The Gospel of the Nazareans | p. 169 |
| The Gospel of the Ebionites | p. 169 |
| The Gospel of the Hebrews | p. 170 |
| Jesus' Fictive Self-Interpretation through the Harmonizing of the Jesus Tradition in Other Apocryphal Gospels | p. 171 |
| The Egerton Gospel | p. 171 |
| The Gospel of Peter | p. 172 |
| The Unknown Berlin Gospel | p. 173 |
| The Authority of the Independent Forms: The Functional Phase | |
| The Independent Differentiation of Partial Texts and Tendencies | p. 179 |
| Preaching | p. 179 |
| Congregational Order | p. 180 |
| Collections of Sayings | p. 180 |
| Secret Teachings of Jesus | p. 180 |
| Historical Writing | p. 181 |
| Apocalypses | p. 181 |
| The Acts of the Apostles | p. 184 |
| The Revelation to John | p. 189 |
| The Letter to the Hebrews | p. 195 |
| The New Testament on Its Way to Becoming a Religious World Literature: The Canonical Phase | |
| Canon as a Means to Stability Based on Compromise and Demarcation | p. 205 |
| The Four-Gospel Canon | p. 211 |
| Canonical Collections of Letters | p. 216 |
| Canonical Clusters of Gospels and Other Genres | p. 218 |
| The Septuagint as Canonical Model | p. 220 |
| A Canonical Edition of the New Testament in the Second Century? | p. 222 |
| Establishment of a Canon as a Recognition of and Limitation on Plurality | p. 225 |
| Extra-Canonical Literature Provides Flexibility | p. 237 |
| New Creations by New Charismatic Authors | p. 238 |
| New Creations in the Form of Additional Pseudepigraphic Writings | p. 241 |
| New Creations through Multiplication of Functional Genres | p. 248 |
| New Creations as Metacanonical Texts | p. 250 |
| Concluding Observation | p. 253 |
| Notes | p. 260 |
| Bibliography | p. 291 |
| Index | p. 302 |
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