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11 - ‘The Borderland of the Bible’

M. R. James, the Apocrypha, and Christian Antiquity in the Late Nineteenth Century*

from Part V - Manuscripts, Morality, and Metaphysics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2023

By
Alison Knight  and
Scott Mandelbrote
Edited by
Simon Goldhill  and
Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft
Simon Goldhill
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft
Affiliation:
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
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Summary

This chapter explores the fascination that the biblical apocrypha held for Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) and explains his relationship to contemporary Cambridge scholarship that pioneered the study of those texts in the context of New Testament scholarship. It places MRJ’s work on the biblical apocrypha within his wider fascination for ‘old stories’, and considers the similarities between his scholarly work on Greek apocrypha and pseudepigrapha and his activities as a medievalist and codicologist, with particular reference both to manuscript studies and to his interpretation of the sculpture in the Lady Chapel at Ely Cathedral.

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Montague Rhodes Jamesbiblical apocryphabiblical pseudepigraphaEly Cathedralmedieval manuscriptsghost storiesCambridgeB. F. WestcottF. J. A. Hortdouble tricycle
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Victorian Engagements with the Bible and Antiquity
The Shock of the Old
 , pp. 284 - 308
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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