Meddling with the Gospel: Celsus, Early Christian Textuality, and the politics of reading
The second-century philosopher Celsus disparaged Christians who ‘alter the original text of the Gospel three or four or many times’ (Cels. 2.27). Modern scholars have understood this passage as criticism of multiple distinct Gospels, but Celsus’ invective is better explained by elite secondcentury p...
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Brill Academic Publishers
2023
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