BIB102: Sourcebook Texts

NB: Headings follow the format Week : Class Meeting Day, so 1.1 means 1st week, 1st class meeting day for that week. Multiple listings of primary sources are given in chronological order, from oldest to newest. Multiple listings of secondary sources are given in alphabetical order by the author’s last name.

1.1. Faith and Biblical Studies

· Secondary Sources:

o Everett Ferguson, “Rule of Faith,” in The Encyclopedia of Early Christianity, Everett Ferguson, ed., 2d ed, vol. 2 (New York: Garland Publishing, 1997).

1.3. NT Canons

· Primary Sources:

- Muratorian Fragment;

- Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, excerpts on NT canon formation (see esp. 3.25);

- Athanasius of Alexandria, Festival Letter 39.

· Secondary/Supplemental Sources:

- Canon Lists in Lee McDonald and James Sanders, The Canon Debate (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2002), 585-597.

2.2. Jewish Backgrounds: Post-Exile

· Secondary Sources:

- Shaye Cohen, From the Maccabees to the Mishnah, LEC 7 (Philadelphia: WJKP, 1987), chs. 1,6.

2.3. Jewish Backgrounds: Greek and Roman Periods

· Primary Sources:

- Dead Sea Scrolls, Community Rule, in Geza Vermes, The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (San Francisco: Penguin, 1997), esp. sections V-IX.

- Josephus, Jewish War 2.8.1-14 (Whiston translation);

- “Birkat Ha-Minim” in Encyclopedia Judaica 2^nd ed, Fred Skolnik and Michael Berenbaum, edd. (New York: Thomson/Gale, 2006), 3.711-712.

- Babylonian Talmud, Gittim 56a-b (Yochanan ben Zakkai’s escape from Jerusalem and founding of Yavneh), Jacob Neusner, trans., in The Blackwell Reader in Judaism, ed. Jacob Neusner and Alan J. Avery-Peck (Oxford: UP, 2001).

3.1. Greco-Roman Culture and Religion

· Primary Sources:

- Apuleius, Golden Ass 3.24-25, 11.1-30;

- Tacitus, Histories 5.

· Secondary Sources:

- Denis Feeney, Literature and Religion at Rome (Cambridge: UP, 1998), chp. 1.

3.2. Roman Culture & Christian Apology

· Primary Sources:

Pliny the Younger, Letters 10.96-97 (Pliny to Trajan on Christians and reply, c. 112 AD)

3.3. Heroes and Emperors, Philosophers and Frauds

· Primary Sources:

- Lucian of Samosata, Peregrinus, in LCL 302 (Lucian, vol. 5), A.M. Harmon, trans. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1962);

- Philostratus, Apollonius of Tyana in LCL 16, Christopher P. Jones, trans. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2005), introduction and book one;

· Secondary Sources:

- Pierre Hadot, Philosophy as a Way of Life, Michael Chase, trans. (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1995; French, Exercices spirituels et philosophie antique (Paris: Etudes augustiniennes, 1981, 1972)), chp 11.

4.1. The Christ of History

· Primary Sources:

- Josephus, Antiquities 18.3.1-3 (Whiston translation);

· Secondary Sources:

- Schweitzer, The Quest of the Historical Jesus, John Bowden, ed. (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress P, 2001 [orig. German ed. 1913]), chs. 1, 21 (esp. chp. 1).

4.2. The Study of the Gospels

· Primary Sources:

- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 3.11.7-8 in Early Christian Fathers, LCC v. 1, Cyril Richardson, trans. and ed. (Philadelphia: Westminster P, 1953), 381-383.

5.1. Beginnings

· Primary Sources:

- Infancy Gospel of Thomas in NTA 1, W. Schneemelcher, ed., R.M. Wilson, trans. (Louisville, KY: WJKP, 1991; German, 1990), 444-449.

6.1. Teachings

· Primary Sources:

- Gospel of Thomas, trans. Stephen Patterson and Marvin Meyer (online resource of the Gnostic Society Library).

6.3. Discipleship & Women in the Gospels

· Primary Sources:

- Gospel of Mary in Nag Hammadi Library, James M. Robinson, gen. ed. (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1988);

- Gospel of Philip in Nag Hammadi Library, James M. Robinson, gen. ed. (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1988; only read paragraph on Mary Magdalene on page 148);

· Secondary Sources:

- Caroyn Osiek, “Mary 3” (on Mary Magdalene), Women in Scripture, Carol Meyers, gen. ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2000).

7.1. Confrontations

· Primary Sources:

o Mishnah Avot, in Jacob Neusner, The Mishnah: A New Translation (New Haven: Yale, 1988), 672-689 (read chapter 1, pp. 672-675);

· Secondary Sources:

o J. Louis Martyn, History and Theology in the Fourth Gospel, 3^rd ed., NTL (Philadelphia: WJKP, 2003), concluding essay.

7.2. Passion

· Primary Sources:

o Gospel of Judas in Rodolphe Kasser, et al, edd, The Gospel of Judas (Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2006).

7.3. Death and Resurrection

· Primary Sources:

o Gospel of Peter in NTA 1, W. Schneemelcher, ed., R.M. Wilson, trans. (Louisville, KY: WJKP, 1991; German, 1990), 223-227;

o Gospel of Truth, in Nag Hammadi Library, James M. Robinson, gen. ed. (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1988) (esp. pg. 41-42 on the meaning of Jesus’ crucifixion).

8.2. Emmerich and Gibson

· Primary Sources:

o Anne Catherine Emmerich, The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, chs. 1,3,12,14,18,20,22,23,26,32,34,38,39,48.

9.1. Acts of the Apostles

· Primary Sources:

o Josephus, Antiquities 20.9.1 (Whiston translation).

9.2. Extra-Canonical Acts

· Primary Sources:

o Acts of Paul (including Acts of Paul and Thecla and Martyrdom of Paul) in NTA 2, W. Schneemelcher, ed., R.M. Wilson, trans. (Louisville, KY: WJKP, 1991; German, 1990);

o Acts of Peter (including Martyrdom of Peter) in NTA 2, W. Schneemelcher, ed., R.M. Wilson, trans. (Louisville, KY: WJKP, 1991; German, 1990).

· Secondary Sources:

o Wolfgang A. Bienert, “The Picture of the Apostle in Early Christian Tradition,” NTA 2, ed. W. Schneemelcher, trans. R.M. Wilson, (Louisville, KY: WJKP, 1991; German, 1990), 5-27.

10.1. Torah Suspended

· Secondary Sources:

- Ernst Käsemann, “The ‘Righteousness of God’ in Paul,” in New Testament Questions of Today (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1969), 168-182.

10.2. Torah Superseded

· Primary Sources:

- Epistle of Barnabus in Early Christian Writings, trans. Andrew Louth (New York: Penguin, 1987);

· Secondary Sources:

- Richard B. Hays, “Homosexuality,” in The Moral Vision of the New Testament (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1996), 379-406.

12.1. Martyr Backgrounds

· Primary Sources:

o Martyrdom of Isaiah, or Ascension of Isaiah1-5, in in James H. Charlesworth, ed., The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, vol. 2, ABRL (New York: Doubleday, 1985).

12.2. NT Martyrs and Martyrology

· Primary Sources:

o Tacitus, Annals 15:38-43, trans. A. J. Woodman (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2004).

· Supplemental Sources:

o Suetonius, Life of Nero 16.

12.3. Post-Apostolic Martyrs

· Primary Sources:

o Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Romans, in Early Christian Writings, Andrew Louth, rev. trans. (London: Penguin, 1987);

o Martyrdom of Polycarp in Cyril R. Richardson, trans. and ed., Early Christian Fathers, Library of Christian Classics v. 1 (Philadelphia: Westminster P, 1953).

14.1. Messianic Trajectories

· Primary Sources:

o 1 Enoch 46-50 in James H. Charlesworth, ed., The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, vol. 1, ABRL (New York: Doubleday, 1983).

15.2. Household Orders

· Primary Sources:

o Didache 7-16 (or The Teaching of the Apostles) in The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, Bart Ehrman, ed., LCL 24 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2003).

15.3. Apostolicity, Monepiscopacy, and Women’s Subjugation

· Primary Sources:

- Clement of Rome, Letter to the Corinthians (aka 1 Clement), in The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, Bart Ehrman, ed., LCL 24 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2003) (read esp. chs. 42-47,57,63);

- Ignatius of Antioch, To the Magnesians, To the Trallians, To the Smyrneans, in Early Christian Fathers, Cyril Richardson, trans., LCC vol. 1 (Philadelphia: Westminster P, 1953).

· Secondary Sources:

- Jouette M. Bassler, “Phoebe” and “Priscilla”, Women in Scripture, Carol Meyers, gen. ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2000);

- Bernadette J. Brooten, “Junia,” Women in Scripture, Carol Meyers, gen. ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2000).

16.1. Revelation’s Interpreters

· Primary Sources:

o 1 Enoch 46-50 in James H. Charlesworth, ed., The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, vol. 1, ABRL (New York: Doubleday, 1983).

16.2. Contextualizing Revelation

· Secondary Sources:

o Richard Bauckham and Trevor Hart, Hope against Hope: Christian Eschatology at the Turn of the Millenium (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999), selected pages.