Reading, Writing and a Heretic: Problematizing Assumptions in New Testament Canonization

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dc.contributor.advisorArnal, William
dc.contributor.authorLindenbach, Christian Terrance
dc.contributor.committeememberBond, Kevin
dc.contributor.committeememberJuschka, Darlene
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-19T22:37:46Z
dc.date.available2017-06-19T22:37:46Z
dc.date.issued2017-01
dc.descriptionA Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Religious Studies, University of Regina. iv, 119 p.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines the influences behind the canonization of the New Testament literature through examinations of Hellenistic educational and textual practices, Jewish scribalism, and scholarly disputes between early Christian intellectuals. This is to problematize the assumption of the development of the New Testament as something orderly and vectored. To that end, first, Hellenistic textual and educational practices will be examined to show how Homeric poetry was redacted and collected in the academy, with specific eyes to the creation of lists by Cicero and Quintilian for lists of books to read in a liberal education. Secondly, this process of scholarship continues into Alexandrian Judaism with the Middle-Platonizing Philo, and his allegorical exegesis of the Jewish Pentateuch, to show the inclusion of Yahwistic Literature into some intellectual circles, and the resultant influence of allegory as hermeneutic in the Mishnaic literature. Thirdly, this allegorical method of textual analysis continues into early Christianity, and an examination of the scholarly discussions between figures like Irenaeus and Marcion will be done to illustrate how the evolution of the New Testament is akin to scholarly, academic discourse over textual collection and editing, and not an apocalyptic struggle of orthodoxy, as the polemicists would argue. The result of this is to call into question assumptions in the field of New Testament canonization, and give voice to Hellenistic, Jewish and Gnostic sources as major influences on the collection and content of the New Testament literature, in contradiction to popular understandings of the history of canonization.en_US
dc.description.authorstatusStudenten
dc.description.peerreviewyesen
dc.identifier.tcnumberTC-SRU-7701
dc.identifier.thesisurlhttp://ourspace.uregina.ca/bitstream/handle/10294/7701/Lindenbach_Christian_200287620_MA_RLST_Spring2017.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10294/7701
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherFaculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Reginaen_US
dc.titleReading, Writing and a Heretic: Problematizing Assumptions in New Testament Canonizationen_US
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.departmentDepartment of Religious Studiesen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineReligious Studiesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Reginaen
thesis.degree.levelMaster'sen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (MA)en_US
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