Extracanonical Traditions and the Holy Land (Mohr Siebeck)

NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK:

Extracanonical Traditions and the Holy Land

Texts, Rituals, and Material Culture in Late Antique Palestine

Edited by Harald Buchinger, Laura S. Lieber, Andreas Merkt, and Tobias Nicklas, in collaboration with Andrea Ackermann and Charlotte von Schelling

2026. 331 pages.
Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity (STAC) 145
DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-163557-1

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Summary

The Holy Land is more than a sanctified geographical space that roughly corresponds to the Roman province that has been known as Palaestina since the end of the Bar Kochba War. Instead, it is primarily an idea and imaginative space created by a complex interaction of texts, rituals, and material culture. The authors of this volume's contributions highlight the major role that extracanonical traditions - often misleadingly called apocryphal - which were written and read, celebrated and performed, and embodied in places, buildings, and material culture, have played in the construction of the Holy Land.

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