The Apocryphal Sunday: History and Texts from Late Antiquity by Uta Heil Paperba

Description: The Apocryphal Sunday by Uta Heil The overriding importance of Sunday as a Christian feast day is emphasized by many apocryphal and pseudepigraphic texts from Late Antiquity, above all the broadly received Letter from Heaven. This volume presents versions of this letter together with other texts, partly based on a new edition, including introduction, translation, and commentary. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A range of apocryphal and pseudepigraphic texts from Late Antiquity points to the importance of Sunday as a holiday for baptized Christians. First and foremost is the so-called Letter from Heaven, which has experienced a broad and long-lasting reception up to modern times, although it was also criticized as a forgery from its beginning. Unfortunately, these texts have not received sufficient attention so far.This volume presents various versions of the Letter from Heaven, as well as other texts (the pseudepigraphic Acts of the Synod of Caesarea; pseudepigraphic sermons of Eusebius of Alexandria, John Chrysostom, and Basil of Caesarea; passages from the Didascalia or Diataxis of Jesus Christ; the Second Apocryphal Apocalypse of John; the Visio Pauli; a sermon of Sophronius of Jerusalem; and the Apocalypse of Anastasia), together with a translation and commentary. An introduction tells the story of this letter and integrates it and the other texts into the cultural history of Sunday. It becomes clear that Sunday as a day of rest and a feast day was not in the foreground of the development of an ecclesiastical festival calendar for a long time, although Emperor Constantine enacted a law on holiday rest on Sunday in 321 CE. Sunday, rather, marks the end of the Christianization of time and the calendar, when Easter, Pentecost, Christmas, and martyrs feasts were already taken for granted. The authors of these texts obviously wanted to accelerate this process, which is why an anonymous person even resorted to presenting Christ himself as the author of this letter. Here, severe punishments are threatened to all who do not observe Sunday, who work as if it were a weekday, and who skip worship. The broad tradition shows that the letter was read and distributed despite all the criticism, and was even turned into an early form of a chain letter. Author Biography Uta Heil is professor for church history at the University of Vienna, Faculty of Protestant Theology. Table of Contents A Introduction1 Contexts - Uta Heil2 Texts in addition to the Letter from Heaven - Uta Heil3 Letter from Heaven3.1 Introduction and Research History - Uta Heil3.2 Latin Manuscripts - Angela Zielinski Kinney3.3 Manuscript Studies (Latin) - Angela Zielinski Kinney3.3.1 Methodology3.3.2 Additional Manuscripts of the Latin Letter from Heaven3.3.3 Results: Latin Recension I3.3.4 Results: Latin Recension II3.3.5 Preliminary Conclusions3.4 Greek Manuscripts - CananAr?kan-Caba3.5 History of the Letter from Heaven - Uta Heil4 Considerations4.1 Framing, Structure, and Discovery Legends - Uta Heil4.2 Rest or Work - Uta Heil4.2.1 The Sabbath Commandment in the Greek Sunday Apocrypha4.2.2 Legacy of Eusebius of Caearea?4.2.3 Sunday Rest in the Latin Letter from Heaven4.2.4 A Day of Reconciliation4.2.5 Ecclesiastical Canons and Punitive Miracles4.2.6 Duration of Sunday until Monday Morning4.3 Threats and Punishments - Uta Heil4.4 Punishment of Women - Uta Heil5 Evaluation - Uta HeilB Texts and Translations1 The Letter of Licinianus of Cartagena - Philip Polcar2 Letter from Heaven - Latin Recension II - Philip Polcar and Christoph Scheerer3 Letter from Heaven - Latin Recension II as Inscription - Michel-Yves Perrin4 Letter from Heaven - Latin Recension I - Philip Polcar5 Letter from Heaven - Greek Recension Alpha - CananAr?kan-Caba6 Letter from Heaven - Greek Recension Beta - Angela Zielinski Kinney7 Letter from Heaven - Greek Recension Beta (London) - CananAr?kan-Caba8 The so-called Acts of the Council of Caesarea - Uta Heil and Christoph Scheerer9 Sophronius of Jerusalem / Dialogue of Jason and Papiscus - Uta Heil10 Visio Pauli 34 or Apocalypse of Paul 44 - Uta Heil11 A homily "Today, my beloved, Id like to praise the day of the Lord" ?Annette von Stockhausen12 A "Question and answer about Sunday" - Annette von Stockhausen13 A homily "Hear, all brothers Christians, what the prophetssay" - Annette von Stockhausen14 Four Names for Sunday (from Codex Vaticanus graecus 2392) - Renate Burri15 Diataxis - Instructions of the Twelve Apostles - Uta Heil and Ioannis Grossmann16 The Second Apocryphal Apocalypse of John - Uta Heil17 The Apocalypse of Anastasia - Uta HeilC Literature Review Uta Heil and the team of scholars around her have produced a remarkable and singular piece of scholarship, and they are to be heartily commended. The place of Sunday as a feast in the Christian tradition is a core object of Christian theology and biblical exegesis, and this monograph brings into the light a lesser-known but incredibly influential text, the so-called Letter from Heaven. Weaving together the weighty work of a critical edition of the documents various recensions with a wide-ranging exploration of how Sunday has been understood, The Apocryphal Sunday is now the place where all scholars will have to begin. --Matthew S. C. Olver, Nashotah House Theological Seminary and Durham UniversitySunday is central to Christian tradition, yet little is known about its origins. Uta Heil and her colleagues open our eyes to a fascinating body of texts from Late Antiquity, which they rigorously analyze, edit, and translate, revealing new perspectives from the margins of mainstream Christianity on the early observance and meanings of Sunday. --Sacha Stern, FBA, University College LondonThis careful introduction to and collection of the popular literature on the observance of Sunday in Christian practice establishes the significance of the issue for both clergy and laity. By providing both an analysis and translations of the surviving documents, it appeals for and invites further investigation and evaluation of the startling means which some Christians dared to employ to urge their preferred practices on their fellows. --J. Patout Burns Jr., University of Notre Dame Details ISBN1506491073 Author Uta Heil Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781506491073 Format Paperback Publication Date 2023-10-17 Imprint Fortress Press,U.S. Subtitle History and Texts from Late Antiquity Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2023-10-17 US Release Date 2023-10-17 UK Release Date 2023-10-17 ISBN-10 1506491073 Alternative 9781506491080 DEWEY 263.3 Audience Professional & Vocational Pages 535 AU Release Date 2023-10-16 Publisher Augsburg Fortress Publishers We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:145285598;

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