Documents for the Study of the Gospels: Revised and Enlarged Edition / Edition 2

by David L. Dungan, David R. Cartlidge

Overview

This collection of freshly translated texts leads to a new appreciation of the richness and variety of the religious world within which Christianity emerged as a powerful new force. Bringing together for the first time under a single cover documents from Jewish, Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Syrian, and little-known early Christian sources, the material is arranged to bring out as clearly as possible the ways in which early Christian worship of Jesus Christ as Savior and God both echoed contemporary worship of other savior gods and at the same time stood in sharp contrast to such worship.

This revised and enlarged edition contains a new introduction on texts and traditions in late antiquity, a reworked translation of The Gospel of Peter, selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses, plus such documents as Papyrus Egerton 2, Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 840, and The Apocryphon of James. In addition, the table of contents has been expanded to allow easier access to the documents contained herein.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800628093
Publisher:	Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date:	02/17/1994
Edition description:	ENL
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

David L. Dungan is Professor of Religion at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

David R. Cartlidge is Professor of Religion at Maryville College, Maryville, Tennessee.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Revised and Enlarged Edition

Note on the Translations

Introduction

Part 1: The Christian Savior

The Coptic Gospel of Thomas

The Acts of the Holy Apostle Thomas

Jesus after the Resurrection

The Gospel of Philip

The Gospel of Peter

Fragment of an Uncanonical Gospel

A Letter from Pilate to Claudius and The Trail of Pilate in Rome

Jesus' Medical Correspondence with King Abgar

The Infancy Gospel of Thomas

The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew

The Birth of Jesus

Fragments of an Unknown Gospel

The Gospel of James

The Apocryphon of James

Part 2: Greek, Jewish, and Roman Parallels Illustrating the Milieu of the Gospels

Prefaces

The Sacred History of Asklepios

Twh Prefaces from Arrian

Isocrates

Birth and Youth

The Birth of Plato (1)

The Birth of Plato (2)

The Birth of Alexander the Great

The Birth of Augustus

The Birth and Childhood of Phthagoras

The Birth of Herakles

Teachings

Aesop's Fables

Rabbinic Parables

Sayings of Thales, Aristippos, And Aristotle

Sayings of Alexander and Others

Epictetus

Two Stories from Epictetus

Miracles

Asklepios

Phthagoras

Vespasian

A Syrian Exorist

Chanina ben Dosa

A Jewish Boy Calms the Sea

The Rabbis Reject Miracles

The Murder of Julius Caesar

The Wine Miracle of Dionysos

Sacraments

The Salvation of Lucius

The Messianic Banquet at Qumran

Apocalyptic Predictions

2 Esdras

A Roman "Messianic" Prophecy Virgil

The Footsteps of the Messiah

Martyrdom

Zeno

Eleazar

Rabbi Akiba

Ascensions and Epiphanies

Romulus

The Dream of Scipio

Apotheosis of Antinous

Herakles

Part 3: Greek and Jewish "Gospels"

The Life of Apollonios of Tyana

Poimandres

The Life of Moses

Alexander the False Prophet

Ovid