Language:
German
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook (2020-2021)
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2021) 111-129
Keywords:
New Testament Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Time perception
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Time in the New Testament
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Time in post-biblical literature
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Post-biblical literature History and criticism
;
Christian literature, Early History and criticism
Abstract:
The article presents concepts of time and time measurement in diverse Greco-Roman, Jewish and early Christian texts dating to the early Roman Imperial period. It then considers the specific role and conceptual function of historiographical texts in ancient discourses about how to perceive, measure and structure time and how to cope with temporality. In that discourse frame, the early gospel writings appear as early Christian modes of memorializing the past for the sake of mastering (present) time: the gospels thus participate in the ancient historiographical project of operating “against Time the all-destroying” (Momigliano).
DOI:
10.1515/9783110705454-006
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