Saturday, March 03, 2018

Review of Rediscovering the Apocryphal Continent

CENTER FOR ANCIENT CHRISTIAN STUDIES BLOG: BOOK REVIEW: REDISCOVERING THE APOCRYPHAL CONTINENT: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON EARLY CHRISTIAN AND LATE ANTIQUE APOCRYPHAL TEXTS AND TRADITIONS (Shawn Wilhite).
In 2004 and 2006, three conferences were held in Groningen, Edinburgh, and Ottawa. Both Groningen and Edinburgh were part of the SBL International Meetings; whereas the meeting in Ottawa was a funded event. Rediscovering the Apocryphal Continent is the product of such meetings. Editors, Pierluigi Piovanelli and Tony Burke, helpfully gathered and edited such ad hoc papers from these gatherings to highlight methodological and literary studies on Christian Apocrypha (hereafter CA). Seasoned and nascent scholars convened to present a host of papers—of which, Rediscovering the Apocryphal Continent is a by-product.

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I noted the publication of the book here. As I mentioned there, I have an article in it.

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