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Supplementing recent anthologies of his poetry and essays on his life and work, Arend (German, U. of Victoria) critically assesses Bauer's (1904-76) poetry. He moved from Germany to Canada in 1952 and proceeded to bootstrap himself from dishwasher to university professor. She draws on his diaries and letters and finds profoundly humane intentions behind his themes and structures. She does not translate the quotations from German. Canadian card order number: C99- 900807-2. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Collection of drafts, revisions of short stories and radio plays;typescripts of poems.
Eighty years ago, Walter Bauer promulgated a bold and provocative thesis about early Christianity. He argued that many forms of Christianity started the race, but one competitor pushed aside the others, until this powerful "orthodox" version won the day. The victors re-wrote history, marginalizing all other perspectives and silencing their voices, even though the alternatives possessed equal right to the title of normative Christianity. Bauer's influence still casts a long shadow on early Christian scholarship. Were heretical movements the original forms of Christianity? Did the heretics outnumber the orthodox? Did orthodox heresiologists accurately portray their opponents? And more fundamen...
This revision was done with the needs of beginning students as well as scholars in mind. It incorporates new research, new information, and analyses while rendering translations into contemporary English. THE standard lexicon of New Testament Greek, there are no competitors. Knowledge of Greek is required to use this work.
Described as an "invaluable reference work" (Classical Philology) and "a tool indispensable for the study of early Christian literature" (Religious Studies Review) in its previous edition, this new updated American edition of Walter Bauer's Wörterbuch zu den Schriften des Neuen Testaments builds on its predecessor's staggering deposit of extraordinary erudition relating to Greek literature from all periods. Including entries for many more words, the new edition also lists more than 25,000 additional references to classical, intertestamental, Early Christian, and modern literature. In this edition, Frederick W. Danker's broad knowledge of Greco-Roman literature, as well as papyri and epigrap...
This study challenges the adequacy of the reconstruction of primitive Christianity advanced by Walter Bauer in Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity - the theory that so-called heretical movements were early, widespread, and strong. The author does this by citing the lack of data extensive enough to warrant such conclusions.