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The Early Reception and Appropriation of the Apostle Peter (60-800 CE)

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The apostle Peter gradually became one of the most famous figures of the ancient world. His almost undisputed reputation made the disciple an exquisite anchor by which new practices within and outs...
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  • 26 March 2020
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The apostle Peter gradually became one of the most famous figures of the ancient world. His almost undisputed reputation made the disciple an exquisite anchor by which new practices within and outside the Church could be established, including innovations in fields as diverse as architecture, art, cult, epigraphy, liturgy, poetry and politics. This interdisciplinary volume inquires the way in which the figure of Peter functioned as an anchor for various people from different periods and geographical areas. The concept of Anchoring Innovation is used to investigate the history of the reception of the apostle Peter from the first century up to Charlemagne, revealing as much about Peter as about the context in which this reception took place.
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Price: $169.00
Pages: 344
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date: 26 March 2020
ISBN: 9789004425675
Format: Hardcover
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"(...) this volume does make important historiographical contributions about the development of religious figures in a changing urban and political environment. The conceptual basis of anchoring can serve well as a model for studies ranging from the reception of religious texts to the developing role(s) of institutions in urban life and the Anchoring Innovation series seems poised to produce volumes of equal historiographical importance." - Andrew Steck, in: BMCR 2021.10.55
"'Les exposés sont clairs et précis, et ... on ressort convaincu de la majorité des raisonnement exposés. La plupart des auteurs inscrivent leur discours et positionnent leurs idées par rapport à l’idée directrice de l’ouvrage, celle d’« Anchoring Innovation ». Il en résulte un très bel aperçu de la construction de la figure de Pierre et des mécanismes d’ancrage dans l’Antiquité (tardive) qui y sont liés." - Charles Wastiau, in: Anabases 2022
Roald Dijkstra, Ph.D. (2014), Radboud University Nijmegen, is postdoctoral assistant at KU Leuven. He co-authored Peter in Rome about the early Roman reception of the apostle (Garant, 2019) and published The Apostles in Early Christian Art and Poetry (Brill, 2016).

Contributors are: Régis Burnet, John R. Curran, Roald Dijkstra, Jutta Dresken-Weiland, Kristina Friedrichs, Olivier Hekster, Annewies van den Hoek, Mark Humphries, Markus Löx, Thomas F. X. Noble, Els Rose, Carl P. E. Springer, Alan Thacker.