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Heresy and Criticism: The Search for Authenticity in Early Christian Literature (Paperback)

~ Robert M. Grant (Author) "THE CHRISTIAN tradition began with what the apostle Paul called "the gospel," reports of the words and deeds of Jesus..." (more)
Key Phrases: cubic cubits, been interpolated, epic cycle, Old Testament, New Testament, Clement of Alexandria (more...)

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Drawing upon his 50 years of experience dealing with the correlation of early Christianity and classical culture to demonstrate that Christian "heretics" were the first to apply literary criticism to Christian books, Grant shows that the heretics' methods were the same as those of pagan contemporaries and that literary criticism derived from the Hellenistic schools.

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Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press (February 1, 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0664221688
ISBN-13: 978-0664221683
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
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THE CHRISTIAN tradition began with what the apostle Paul called "the gospel," reports of the words and deeds of Jesus. Read the first page

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cubic cubits, been interpolated, epic cycle, spiritual gospel, other evangelists

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Old Testament, New Testament, Clement of Alexandria, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, Nature of Man, Son of God, Diogenes Laertius, Dionysius of Alexandria, Marcion's Gospel, Acute Diseases, Christ Jesus, Codex Bezae, Gaius of Rome, Gospel of John, Gospel of Luke, Julius Africanus, Marcus Aurelius, Sibylline Oracles, Synoptic Gospels, Theophilus of Antioch, Catalogue of Women, Clementine Homilies, Dio Chrysostom, Presumably Marcion

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This book cites 73 books:

The Hippocratic Tradition (Cornell publications in the history of science) by Wesley D. Smith on 6 pages
The Nag Hammadi Library by James M. Robinson on 6 pages
Ancient Christian Gospels by Helmut Koester on 4 pages
Iliad and Odyssey by Homer on 4 pages
Marcion and the New Testament by John Knox on 4 pages

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9 books cite this book:

Augustus to Constantine by Robert M. Grant in Front Matter, and Back Matter
Norms of Faith and Life (Recent Studies in Early Christianity, 3) by E. Ferguson on page 31
A Scientific Theology: Theory by Alister E. McGrath on page 227
Classics in Progress: Essays on Ancient Greece and Rome (British Academy Centenary Monographs) by T. P. Wiseman on page 406
Symbolic Blackness and Ethnic Difference in Early Christian Literature by Gay Byron in Back Matter

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