Gospels and Their Receptions

With this volume twenty-seven friends and colleaguesof Joseph Verheyden, Professor of New Testament at KU Leuven, celebrate hissixty-fifth birthday and honour him for his outstanding achievements in thestudy of the New Testament and early Christian literature. The contributions, written by authors from many countries in Europe, Canada, the United States, andSouth Africa, discuss the origin of the earliest gospels, the Sayings Source Q, various solutions to the Synoptic Problem, and the textual transmission of thecanonical gospels. Other essays examine pre-Markan traditions, the traces thecanonical gospels have left in the Apostolic Fathers, and the reception of thegospels in non-canonical writings such as the Gospel ofPeter, the Apocalypse of Peter, and theActs of Thecla, and in patristic and gnostic literature.Several papers are detailed commentaries on specific passages in the NewTestament gospels, or concentrate on such figures as Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Nathanael. The volume also includes Verheyden's full bibliography1979-2022.