Constantine's Bible Politics and the Making of the New Testament

Name: Constantine's Bible Politics and the Making of the New Testament
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ISBN: 9780800637903

ISBN-10: 0800637909

ISBN-13: 9780800637903

Edition: 2006

Authors: David L. Dungan

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Most college and seminary courses on the New Testament include discussions of the process that gave shape to the New Testament. Now David Dungan re-examines the primary source for this history, the Ecclesiastical History of the fourth-century Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea, in the light of Hellenistic political thought. He reaches startling new conclusions: that we usually use the term "canon" incorrectly; that the legal imposition of a "canon" or "rule" upon scripture was a fourth- and fifth-century phenomenon enforced with the power of the Roman imperial government; that the forces shaping the New Testament canon are much earlier than the second-century crisis occasioned by Marcion, and that…

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List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date: 10/27/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface


What a "Canon" of Scripture Is-and Is Not


The Greek Polis and the Demand for Accuracy


Greek Polis Ideology within Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity


The Influence of Greek Philosophy Upon Early Christianity


Against Pagans and Heretics: Eusebius's Strategy in Defense of the Catholic Scriptures


An Emperor Intervenes: Constantine Reshapes Catholic Christianity and Its Scriptures


Epilogue











Timeline of Figures and Events Discussed in the Text


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index