Pseudoclementina Elchasaiticaque inter Judaeochristiana : collected studies / by F. Stanley Jones ; editorial assistance by M. Francie Kisko.

Part I. The Pseudo-Clementines -- A. Introduction -- 1. Pseudo-Clementines -- 2. Introduction to the Pseudo-Clementines -- 3. The Pseudo-Clementines: A History of Research -- B. Períodoi Pétrou: The Basic Writing -- 4. Eros and Astrology in the Períodoi Pétrou: The Sense of the Pseudo-Clementine Novel -- 5. Jewish Christianity of the Pseudo-Clementines -- 6. Marcionism in the Pseudo-Clementines -- 7. Clement of Rome and the Pseudo-Clementines: History and/or Fiction -- 8. The Ancient Christian Teacher in the Pseudo-Clementines -- 9. The Genesis of Pseudo-Clementine Christianity -- C. Recognitions 1.27-71 -- 10. An Ancient Jewish Christian Rejoinder to Luke’s Acts of the Apostles: Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions 1.27-71 -- 11. A Jewish Christian Reads Luke’s Acts of the Apostles: The Use of the Canonical Acts in the Ancient Jewish Christian Source behind Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions 1.27-71 -- 12. Jewish-Christian Chiliastic Restoration in Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions 1.27-71 -- 13. Jewish Tradition on the Sadducees in the Pseudo-Clementines -- 14. Review of The Ascents of James: History and Theology of a Jewish-Christian Community, by Robert E. Van Voors -- 15. The Gospel of Peter in Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions 1,27-71 -- 16. The Martyrdom of James in Hegesippus, Clement of Alexandria, and Christian Apocrypha, Including Nag Hammadi: A Study of the Textual Relations -- D. History of the Text -- 17. Early Syriac Pointing in and behind British Museum Additional Manuscript 12,150 -- 18. Evaluating the Latin and Syriac Translations of the PseudoClementine Recognitions -- 19. PsCl Concordances: Mistakes/Corrections -- 20. Photius’s Witness to the Pseudo-Clementines -- Part II. Elchasai -- 21. The Book of Elchasai in Its Relevance for Manichaean Institutions with a Supplement: The Book of Elchasai Reconstructed and Translated -- 22. The Genre of the Book of Elchasai: A Primitive Church Order, Not an Apocalypse -- 23. Review of The Revelation of Elchasai, by Gerard P. Luttikhuizen -- 24. The Astrological Trajectory in Ancient Syriac-Speaking Christianity (Elchasai, Bardaisan, and Mani) -- Part III. Jewish Christianity -- 25. Jewish Christians -- 26. Hegesippus as a Source for the History of Jewish Christianity -- 27. Sonship in Some Early Jewish Christian Traditions -- 28. The Pseudo-Clementines -- 29. Review of L’antipaulinisme sectaire au temps des pères de l’église by Simon Légasse -- 30. Ebionites -- 31. Ebionite Gospel/Ebionites, Gospel of the -- 32. Jewish Christians as Heresiologists and as Heresy --

Alongside his long-awaited systematic introduction to the Pseudo-Clementines, F. Stanley Jones collects into one volume over thirty new and previously published essays on the Pseudo-Clementines, Elchasai, and Jewish Christianity. This corpus spans three decades of concerted research into manuscripts, ancient witnesses, editions, translations, reconstructions, and historical analysis. A chorus of Jewish Christian voices from second/third-century Syria emerges and reveals distinctive beliefs and literary productions in their interface with contemporary Judaism, gentile Christianity, and the pagan world. The Book of Elchasai, for example, is reconstructed and translated as an eye-opening church order from 116-117 C.E. This volume provides vistas for new appreciations of ancient Jewish Christianity as well as of the sparkling diversity in early Christianity generally.