Sarah Parkhouse

Eschatology and the Saviour

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an analysis of the genre 'dialogue gospels' and their relationship to themes in New Testament texts. It then focuses on the 'Gospel of Mary', evaluates this gospel in light of the genre, argues for a christocentic reading of its eschatology, and provides new translations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 437g
• ISBN-13: 9781108712866
• ISBN-10: 110871286X
• Artikelnr.: 59982762

Autorenporträt

Sarah Parkhouse is a research fellow at the Australian Catholic University, Melbourne. She is co-editor of Connecting Gospels (2018) and is interested in bringing New Testament texts into conversation with other early Christian literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: 1. What is a dialogue Gospel? Defining a genre
2. Why write a dialogue Gospel? Themes from the New Testament
Part II: 3. The narrative frame of the 'Gospel of Mary'
4. The cosmos and its undoing: the cosmic eschatology of the 'Gospel of Mary'
5. The journey of the soul: the individual
Conclusion
Appendix 1. The 'Gospel of Mary': Coptic and Greek MSS
Appendix 2. The 'Gospel of Mary': text and translations
Appendix 3. The Gospel of Mary: synopses of the Greek and Coptic MSS.