Jewish-Christian Interpretation of the Pentateuch in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies

Download or read book Jewish-Christian Interpretation of the Pentateuch in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies written by Donald H. Carlson and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pseudo-Clementine writings are one of the most intriguing and valuable sources for early Jewish Christianity. They offer a second- or third-century polemic against the form of Christianity that eventually won out, the Gentile-majority, law-free Christianity that took Paul as its champion. Carlson's interest here is in the highly unusual theory expressed in the Homilies that the Pentateuch is saturated with false pericopes, and that the teaching of Jesus, the true prophet, is the criterion for establishing what the Pentateuch really means.