Extracanonical Traditions and the Holy Land: Texts, Rituals, and Material Culture in Late Antique Palestine

The Holy Land is more than a sanctified geographical space that roughly corresponds to the Roman province that has been known as Palaestina since the end of the Bar Kochba War. Instead, it is primarily an idea and imaginative space created by a complex interaction of texts, rituals, and material culture. The authors of this volume's contributions highlight the major role that extracanonical traditions - often misleadingly called apocryphal - which were written and read, celebrated and performed, and embodied in places, buildings, and material culture, have played in the construction of the Holy Land.

Born 1969; 2002 Dr. theol. Vienna; Professor of Liturgical Studies at Regensburg University and Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies "Beyond Canon_".

Born 1972; 2003 PhD University of Chicago (History of Judaism and Jewish Biblical Interpretation); 2016-24 Professor of Religious Studies at Duke University; Professor of Transregional Religious History at Regensburg University and Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies "Beyond Canon_".

Born 1967; 1996 Dr. theol. Mainz; Professor of Historical Theology (Ancient Church History, Patrology, and Christian Archaeology) at Regensburg University and Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies "Beyond Canon_".

Geboren 1967; 2000 Promotion und 2004 Habilitation an der Universität Regensburg; Professor für Neues Testament an der Universität Regensburg; wiss. Mitarbeiter an der University of the Free State Bloemfontein.