The BRANE Collective is thrilled to launch a new series, the Primary
Text Laboratory, with an inaugural event on Apocryphon of James! This
series brings together a panel of scholars to examine closely a single
text from different perspectives, in an open conversation on any aspect
of its interpretation. Our aim is to share infrequently studied texts
with a wider audience and to provide a space for interested researchers
to chat about the texts they love!
Have a primary text you’d like to discuss? Propose a Primary Text
Lab! Proposals from scholars at all stages, including graduate students,
are warmly welcome. The BRANE Collective can help facilitate, including
connecting with scholars you’d like to invite. See the Event Toolkit to get started!
For this first event in the series, we have a panel of scholars with diverse approaches on Apocryphon of James.
This fascinating text is not so well known as some of its Nag Hammadi
peers, but it offers a distinct opportunity to discuss topics such as
reception of Jesus tradition, genre designations of texts about Jesus,
and early portrayals of the apostles. Come join us for an exciting
discussion and learn more about this text’s contribution to our
understanding of early Christian literature.
Wednesday, March 31 2:00 – 3:30pm Eastern time (US)/7:00-8:30pm UK time
A link to the text will be sent with your registration confirmation.
Discussants:
Karen L King, Kimberly Bauser McBrien, Sarah Parkhouse, Elizabeth Schrader, Kristine Toft Rosland
Gallery contains images of Codex I, papyrus p. 1, https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/nha; Karen L. King; Kim Bauser McBrien; Sarah Parkhouse; Kristine Toft Rosland; and Elizabeth Schrader
Karen L. King is trained in comparative religions
and historical studies and is the author of books and articles on the
diversity of ancient Christianity, women and gender studies, and
religion and violence. Her particular passion is studying recently
discovered literature from Egypt, including the Gospel of Mary, the
Apocalypse of James, the Gospel of Philip, and the Secret Revelation of
John.
Kim Bauser McBrien is interested in the New
Testament and early Christianity, with a focus on the role of memory in
the preservation and production of tradition in the canonical gospels
and extra-canonical literature of the first three centuries. Her work
specialises in Apocryphon of James, including themes of social memory
and pseudepigraphy. She also has published on biblical studies pedagogy
in the undergraduate classroom.
Sarah Parkhouse researches early Christianity, and
has particular interests in the second century, diversity within
religious thought and practices, and how locality shapes and is shaped
by religion. She has written a book and articles on ‘dialogue gospels’
and has just started a project on Coptic literature and artefacts within
the Egyptian landscape.
Kristine Toft Rosland works on the Nag Hammadi
Codices and Egyptian monastic material from the fourth and fifth
centuries. She specialises in the Apocryphon of John, its textual
variants, and its Christology. Her methodological interests also include
fan fiction, and she has published on its application to the
relationship between Apocryphon of John and Genesis.
Elizabeth Schrader’s research interests include
textual criticism, the New Testament Gospels, the Nag Hammadi corpus,
Mary Magdalene, and feminist theology. Her article “Was Martha of
Bethany Added to the Fourth Gospel in the Second Century?” was published
in the Harvard Theological Review. Her work has been featured by both the Daily Beast and Religion News Service.
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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