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To Cast the First Stone
Jennifer Knust, Tommy Wasserman
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Religion/Theologie
Beschreibung
The story of the woman taken in adultery features a dramatic confrontation between Jesus and the Pharisees over whether the adulteress should be stoned as the law commands. In response, Jesus famously states, “Let him who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” To Cast the First Stone traces the history of this provocative story from its first appearance to its enduring presence today.
Likely added to the Gospel of John in the third century, the passage is often held up by modern critics as an example of textual corruption by early Christian scribes and editors, yet a judgment of corruption obscures the warm embrace the story actually received. Jennifer Knust and Tommy Wasserman trace the story’s incorporation into Gospel books, liturgical practices, storytelling, and art, overturning the mistaken perception that it was either peripheral or suppressed, even in the Greek East. The authors also explore the story’s many different meanings. Taken as an illustration of the expansiveness of Christ’s mercy, the purported superiority of Christians over Jews, the necessity of penance, and more, this vivid episode has invited any number of creative receptions. This history reveals as much about the changing priorities of audiences, scribes, editors, and scholars as it does about an “original” text of John.
To Cast the First Stone calls attention to significant shifts in Christian book cultures and the enduring impact of oral tradition on the preservation—and destabilization—of scripture.
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Textual criticism of the New Testament, Theology, Christian, Writing, Didascalia Apostolorum, Pharisees, Diatessaron, Nomina sacra, Septuagint, Anecdote, Origen, Textual criticism, Homily, Cambridge University Press, Copying, Lectionary, Preface (liturgy), Oxford University Press, Codex Sinaiticus, Manuscript, Sermon, Christian tradition, Book, Lection, Epistle, Lent, Corrector, Jews, New Testament, Pericope, Religious text, John Chrysostom, Protestantism, Adultery, Literature, Barbara Aland, Hebrews, Liturgy, Jesus and the woman taken in adultery, Clement of Alexandria, Old Latin, Heresy, Doctor of the Church, Justin Martyr, Didymus the Blind, Exegesis, Textus Receptus, Apostolic Constitutions, Psalms, Gospel of John, Asceticism, Bibliography, Mark 16, Synoptic Gospels, Greek New Testament, Saint Pelagia, Bible, Codex Bezae, Tertullian, Development of the New Testament canon, Pauline epistles, Susanna (Book of Daniel), Christianity, Publication, Allusion, Old Greek, Late Antiquity, Princeton University Press, Church Fathers, Irenaeus