Jonathan Klawans

Heresy, Forgery, Novelty (eBook, ePUB)

Condemning, Denying, and Asserting Innovation in Ancient Judaism

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Produktbeschreibung

It is commonly asserted that heresy is a Christian invention that emerged in late antiquity as Christianity distinguished itself from Judaism. Heresy, Forgery, Novelty probes ancient Jewish disputes regarding religious innovation and argues that Christianity's heresiological impulse is in fact indebted to Jewish precedents. In this book, Jonathan Klawans demonstrates that ancient Jewish literature displays a profound unease regarding religious innovation. The historian Josephus condemned religious innovation outright, and later rabbis valorize the antiquity of their traditions. The Dead Sea sectarians spoke occasionally-and perhaps secretly-of a "new covenant," but more frequently masked newer ideas in rhetorics of renewal or recovery. Other ancient Jews engaged in pseudepigraphy-the false attribution of recent works to prophets of old. The flourishing of such religious forgeries further underscores the dangers associated with religious innovation. As Christianity emerged, the discourse surrounding religious novelty shifted dramatically. On the one hand, Christians came to believe that Jesus had inaugurated a "new covenant," replacing what came prior. On the other hand, Christian writers followed their Jewish predecessors in condemning heretics as dangerous innovators, and concealing new works in pseudepigraphic garb. In its open, unabashed embrace of new things, Christianity parts from Judaism. Christianity's heresiological condemnation of novelty, however, displays continuity with prior Jewish traditions. Heresy, Forgery, Novelty reconsiders and offers a new interpretation of the dynamics of the split between Judaism and Christianity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190062521
• Artikelnr.: 57595684

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Klawans is Professor of Religion at Boston University. He is the author of Impurity and Sin in Ancient Judaism (OUP 2000), Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple (OUP 2005), and Josephus and the Theologies of Ancient Judaism (OUP 2012). He is also co-editor of the forthcoming Jewish Annotated Apocrypha.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Acknowledgments
* Abbreviations
* Chapter 1: Heresies, Forgeries, Novelties
* What is New? Anxieties of Innovation, Then and Now
* A Tradition of Condemning What is New
* A Tradition of Denial: The Constructed Absence of Jewish Heresy
* Authoritative Innovation: Prophecy and Scripture
* Innovation Revealed and Concealed: Interpretation, Scribes, and
Pseudepigraphy
* Pseudepigraphy and Forging Antiquity
* Heresy, Forgery, Novelty
* Chapter 2: Heresy Without Orthodoxy: Josephus and the Rabbis on
Dangerous Beliefs
* Josephus on the Afterlife: A Possibly Dangerous Hope
* Josephus on the Epicureans: Dangerous Denial
* Josephus and Jewish Innovation 1: General Denials and Justifications
* Constructing and Condemning the Fourth Philosophy
* Heresy and Consensus (not Orthodoxy)
* Josephus and Jewish Innovation 2: Denials and Falsifications
* Heretics in the Mishnah
* The Consensus of Pirkei Avot
* Conclusion
* Chapter 3: Secret Supersessionism? Intimations of Novelty Concealed
at Qumran
* The New Covenant of the Damascus Document
* Novelty, Restoration, and Renewal
* Masking Innovation: Remarriage after Divorce and Other New Laws
* Covenant Renewal in Jubilees and Qumran
* Denying Innovation: The Timelessness of the Two Ways
* Secret Supersessionism? A Mysterious Possibility
* In the Absence of the Old
* Conclusion
* Excursus: The New Covenant Inscribed on an Old Stone?
* Chapter 4: Innovation Asserted: The Novelties of Early Christianity
* Christians, Covenants, and Testaments
* A New Covenant in the Gospels and Paul
* Innovation and the Teachings of Jesus
* The New and Old Covenants in Hebrews
* Prophecy and Innovation among the Followers of Jesus
* Prophecy, Novelty, and Scripture
* An Alternate Discourse: The Timeless Two Ways
* Conclusion
* Conclusions, Hypotheses and Reflections
* Bibliography