Beyond the Canonical and the Apocryphal Books, the Presence of a Third Category: The Books Useful for the Soul
2012; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 105; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s0017816012000466
ISSN1475-4517
Autores Tópico(s)Biblical Studies and Interpretation
ResumoI like tennis—both to play and to watch it. 1 Nothing is more pleasant than watching an exchange between Federer and Nadal. There is a similar kind of exchange that has been going on in this country in recent years. On one side, there are evangelical New Testament scholars; on the other, liberal scholars working on early Christianity. In the camp of the evangelicals, Ben Witherington, 2 Craig A. Evans, 3 and Darrell L. Bock 4 are playing a defensive game, accusing the others of constituting a “new school,” 5 one that prefers heresy over orthodoxy and promotes diversity where unity once was. In the camp of the critics, Elaine Pagels promotes the spirituality of the Gospel of Thomas ; 6 Bart D. Ehrman's Lost Christianities flies in the face of his opponents; 7 and Marvin Meyer considers the Gospel of Judas a valuable work that reveals in the mind of the dark apostle knowledge of the divine realm. 8
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