The reception and interpretation of the Bible in late antiquity: proceedings of the Montréal colloquium in honour of Charles Kannengiesser, 11-13 October 2006

Contents......Page 6
Abbreviations......Page 10
List of Contributors......Page 16
Acknowledgements......Page 20
Introduction: The Reception and Interpretation of the Biblein Late Antiquity (Lorenzo DiTommaso and Lucian Turcescu)......Page 22
Congratulatory Letter (The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury)......Page 28
KEYNOTE ADDRESS......Page 32
The Novelty and Inescapability of the Bible in Late Antiquity (Robert Louis Wilken)......Page 34
PAPERS......Page 46
« Car mes iniquités dépassèrent ma tête » : Les fonctions du textebiblique dans la section katanyktique du Logos Asketikos de Maxime le Confesseur (Pablo Argárate)......Page 48
What Makes Exegesis either Christian or Jewish? (Herbert W. Basser)......Page 68
Augustine and the Ethics of Reading the Bible (Pamela Bright)......Page 86
Appeals to Jesus and the One 'Who Heals Every Illness and Every Infirmity' (Matt 4:23, 9:35) in Amulets in Late Antiquity (Theodore de Bruyn)......Page 96
Le commentaire au 4e siècle ou, pour reformuler le dicton, ancienneté a-t-elle toujours autorité? (Marie-Pierre Bussières)......Page 114
Completing the Gospel: The Infancy Gospel of Thomas as a Supplement to the Gospel of Luke (Tony Chartrand-Burke)......Page 132
Good Tree, Bad Tree: The Matthean/Lukan Paradigm in Manichaeism and Its Opponents (J. Kevin Coyle)......Page 152
Biblical Form, Function, and Genre in the Post-Biblical Historical Apocalyptica (Lorenzo DiTommaso)......Page 176
The Reception and Interpretation of Paul in Late Antiquity: 1 Corinthians 7 and the Ascetic Debates (David G. Hunter)......Page 194
The Eternal Gospel: Origen's Eschatological Exegesis (Shawn W.J. Keough)......Page 224
Making the Imperfect Perfect: The Adaptation of Hebrews 11in the 9th Mēmrā of the Syriac Book of Steps  (Robert A. Kitchen)......Page 258
Les Homélies sur l'Évangile de Luc de Titus de Bostra (Jean-Michel Lavoie, Paul-Hubert Poirier et Thomas S. Schmidt)......Page 284
Hearing Love's Language: The Letter of the Text in Origen's Commentary on the Song of Songs (Richard A. Layton)......Page 318
The Early Rabbinic Refashioning of Biblical Heilsgeschichte, the Fashioning of the Rabbinic Canon of Scriptures, and the Formation of the Early Rabbinic Movement (Jack N. Lightstone)......Page 348
'—?': The ExegeticalRelationship between Athanasius' Orationes contra Arianos I—III and Marcellus of Ancyra's Contra Asterium (Sara Parvis)......Page 368
Présupposés herméneutiques de la lecture de la Bible juivechez les gnostiques. Étude de quelques procédés exégétiquesdans un traité de Nag Hammadi (NH 2, 4) (Anne Pasquier)......Page 400
Scripture for a Life of Perfection. The Bible in Late Antique Monasticism: The Case of Palestine (Lorenzo Perrone)......Page 424
Separating Light from Darkness: Manichaean Use of Biblical Traditions in the Kephalaia (Timothy Pettipiece)......Page 450
The Reception of Early Christian Texts and Traditions in Late Antiquity Apocryphal Literature (Pierluigi Piovanelli)......Page 460
Methods of Early Rabbinic Biblical Exegesis (Gary G. Porton)......Page 472
Pseudepigraphy, Authorship, and the Reception of 'the Bible' in Late Antiquity (Annette Yoshiko Reed)......Page 498
Between Scripture and Tradition: The Marian Apocrypha of Early Christianity (Stephen J. Shoemaker)......Page 522
Gregory of Nyssa's Biblical Hermeneutics in De opifi ciohominis (Lucian Turcescu)......Page 542
SPECIAL GUEST PAPER......Page 558
Scripture as a Legacy of the Fathers (Charles Kannengiesser)......Page 560
Bibliography of the Works of Charles Kannengiesser......Page 574
Index of Ancient Sources......Page 592
Index of Modern Authors (Compiled by Éric Crégheur)......Page 630