Ancient Jew Review is pleased to host a series of papers delivered at the annual SBL/AAR conference as part of a panel organized by Janet Spittler and Lily Vuong, chairs of the Christian Apocrypha Section. These articles celebrate the work of Tobias Nicklas and the "Beyond Canon: Heterotopias of Religious Authority in Ancient Christianity” project of the Universität Regensburg.
Manuscripts Beyond the Canon
“Beyond Canon” is a broad concept, and a good one for a research institute. It enables scholars to engage in any number of critical activities on many different traditions, in different languages, produced and transmitted at different times.
Senator Marcellus as an Early Christian Role Model: The Destruction and Restoration of a ‘Statue of the Emperor’ in Acta Petri 11
The Acts of Peter (ActPet), traditionally counted among the five major Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles (AAA), (i.e., together with the Acts of John, Acts of Paul and Thecla, Acts of Andrew and Acts of Thomas), is a narrative about the duel between Peter and Simon Magus and Peter’s martyrdom, both parts of the story situated in Rome.
Beyond Canon: An Introduction to the Project
A key element of Wilhelm Schneemelcher’s classical definition of the term “New Testament Apocrypha” – today we would probably prefer to speak of “Christian Apocrypha” – is the following notion: With the more or less fixed closure of the New Testament Canon around the fourth century CE the production of New Testament Apocrypha came to an end.