Pericopae adulterae
Standard abbreviation: PA
Other titles: none
Clavis numbers: ECCA 338
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Related literature: Didascalia apostolorum 7; Didymus the Blind, Comm. Eccl. 223.6b–13a
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1. SUMMARY
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2. RESOURCES
2.1 Web Sites and Other Online Resources
“Jesus and the Woman Taken in Adultery.” Wikipedia.
2.2 Art and Iconography
3. BIBLIOGRAPHY
3.1 Manuscripts and Editions
Mount Athos, Monē Iveron, 56, fol. 157r (11th cent.) ~ a note before the Pericopae Adulterae states that “this chapter is from the Gospel according to Thomas” (manuscript image)
Didascalia Apostolorum. Translated by R. Hugh Connolly. Oxford: Clarendon, 1929.
Didascalia Apostolorum in Syriac I: Chapters I–X. Translated by Arthur Vööbus. Corpus scriptorum christianorum orientalium 402; Scriptores Syri 176. Louvain: Secrétariat du CorpusSCO, 1979.
———. Didascalia Apostolorum: The Syriac Version Translated and Accompanied by the Verona Latin Fragments, with an Introduction and Notes. Translated by R. Hugh Connolly. Oxford: Clarendon, 1929.
———. Greek and Latin fragments. In Didascalia Apostolorum, Canonum ecclesiasticorum, Traditionis apostolicae versiones latinae, edited by Erik Tidner. TUGAL 75. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1963.
Didymus the Blind. Commentarii in Ecclesiasten. In Didymos der Blinde: Kommentar zum Ecclesiastes (Tura- Papyrus). Part 4, Kommentar zu Eccl. Kap. 7–8,8 in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Ägyptischen Museum zu Kairo, edited and translated by Johannes Kramer and Bärbel Krebber.
Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlungen 16. Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1972.
Lake, Kirsopp. “Texts from Mount Athos.” Studa biblica et ecclesiastica 5 (1903): 91–185 (Mount Iveron manuscript, p. 173).
3.2 Modern Translations
3.2.1 English
3.3 General Works
Aichele, George. ‘Reading Jesus Writing.’ Biblical Interpretation 12.4 (2004): 353–68.
Aichele, George, and Richard Walsh, eds. Those Outside: Noncanonical Readings of the Canonical Gospels. London: T & T Clark, 2005.
Atherton, Mark. ‘A Place for Mercy: Some Allegorical Readings of “The
Woman Taken in Adultery” from the Early Middle Ages (with particular
reference to Bede, the Heliand, and the Exeter Book).’ Pages 105–138 in
Ciphers in the Sand: Interpretations of the Woman Taken in Adultery (John 7.53–8.11). Edited by Larry J. Kreitzer and Deborah W. Rooke. Biblical Seminar 74. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.
Baylis, Charles P. ‘The Woman Caught in Adultery: A Test of Jesus as the
Greater Prophet.’ Bibliotheca Sacra 146 (1989): 171–184.
Birdsall, J. Neville. ‘The Pericope Adulterae in Georgian.’ Pages 185–192 in Studia patristica 39. Edited by F. Young, M. Edwards, and P. Parvis. Leuven: Peeters, 2006.
Bishop, Eric F.F. ‘The Pericope Adulterae: A Suggestion.’ Journal of Theological Studies 35 (1934): 40–45.
Burge, Gary M. ‘A Specific Problem in the New Testament Text and Canon: The Woman Caught in Adultery (John 7:53–8:11).’ Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 27.2 (1984): 141–148.
Cadbury, Henry J. ‘A Possible Case of Lukan Authorship (John 753–811).’ Harvard Theological Review 10.3 (1917): 237–244.
Coleman, Beverley Warren. ‘The Woman Taken in Adultery: Studies in Texts: John 7:53–8:11.’ Theology 73 (1970): 409–410.
Comfort, Philip. ‘The Pericope of the Adulteress.’ The Bible Translator 40.1 (1989): 145–147.
Ehrman, Bart D. Didymus the Blind and the Text of the Gospels. Society of Biblical Literature. The New Testament in the Greek Fathers 1. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1986.
———. ‘Jesus and the Adulteress.’ Pages 196–220 in Studies in the Textual Criticism of the New Testament. New Testament Tools and Studies 33. Leiden: Brill, 2006. Repr. from New Testament Studies 34 (1988): 24–44. Byantine art pp. 329-36
Ferguson, John. ‘The Woman Taken in Adultery.’ Expository Times 93 (1982): 280–281.
Geerlings, Jacob. Family 13—The Ferrar Group: The Text According to Luke. Studies and Documents 20. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1961.
Guardiola-Sáenz, Leticia A. ‘Border-crossing and its Redemptive Power in John 7.53–8.11: A Cultural Reading of Jesus and the Accused.’ Pages 129–152 in John and Postcolonialism: Travel, Space and Power. Edited by Musa W. Dube and Jeffrey A. Staley. Bible and Postcolonialism 7. London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002.
Heil, John Paul. ‘A Rejoinder to “Reconsidering ‘The Story of Jesus and the Adulteress Reconsidered’ ” (John 7:53–8:11).’ Eglise et théologie 25 (1994): 361–366.
———. ‘The Story of Jesus and the Adulteress (John 7,53–8,11) Reconsidered.’ Biblica 72 (1991): 182–191.
Hodges, Zane C. ‘The Woman Taken in Adultery (John 7:53–8:11): Exposition.’ Bibliotheca Sacra 137 (1980): 41–53.
———. ‘The Woman Taken in Adultery (John 7:53–8:11): The Text.’ Bibliotheca Sacra 136 (1979): 318–332.
Holmes, Barbara A., and Susan R. Holmes-Winfield. ‘Sex, Stones, and Power Games: A Woman Caught at the Intersection of Law and Religion (John 7:53–8:11).’ Pages 143–162 in Pregnant Passion: Gender, Sex, and Violence in the Bible. Edited by Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan. Semeia Studies 44. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.
Keith, Chris. The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John, and the Literacy of Jesus. NTTSD 38. Leiden: Brill, 2009.
———. “The Pericope Adulterae: A Theory of Attentive Insertion.” In The Pericope of the Adulteress in Contemporary Research, edited by D. A. Black and Jacob C. Cerone, 89–114. LNTS 551. New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2016.
Keith, Chris. ‘The Adulteress’ Entrance into John’s Gospel: A Performance of the Text.’ In The Fourth Gospel and First-Century Media Culture. Edited by Anthony LeDonne and Tom Thatcher. European Studies on Christian Origins. London: T & T Clark, forthcoming.
———. ‘Recent and Previous Research on the Pericope Adulterae (John 7.53–8.11).’ Currents in Biblical Research 6.3 (2008): 377–404.
Kinukawa, Hisako. ‘On John 7:53–8:11: A Well-Cherished but Much-Clouded Story.’ Pages 82–96 in Reading from This Place: Volume 2. Edited by Fernando F. Segovia and Mary Ann Tolbert. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2000.
Knust, Jennifer Wright. ‘Early Christian Re-Writing and the History of the Pericope Adulterae.’ Journal of Early Christian Studies 14.4 (2006): 485–536.
———. ‘Jesus, an Adulteress, and the Development of Christian Scripture.’ Pages 59–82 in A Tall Order: Writing the Social History of the Ancient World: Essays in Honor of William V. Harris. Edited by Jean-Jacques Aubert and Zsuzsanna Várhelyi. Münich: K.G. Saur, 2005.
———. Loose Texts, Loose Women: A History of Jesus, an Adulteress, and the Gospel of John. Forthcoming.
Knust, Jennifer, and Tommy Wasserman. To Cast the First Stone: The Transmission of a Gospel Story. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019.
Kraus, Thomas J. ‘John 7:15B: “Knowing Letters” and (Il)literacy.’ Pages 171–183 in his Ad Fontes: Original Manuscripts and Their Significance for Studying Early Christianity—Selected Essays. Leiden: Brill, 2007.
Manson, T.W. ‘The Pericope de Adultera (Joh 753–811).’ Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche 43 (1950–1951): 255–256.
Margoliouth, D.S. ‘Jesus Writing on the Ground.’ Expository Times 31 (1919–1920): 38.
McDonald, J. Ian H. ‘The So-Called Pericope de Adultera.’ New Testament Studies 41 (1995): 415–427.
Minear, Paul S. ‘Writing on the Ground: The Puzzle in John 8:1–11.’ Horizons in Biblical Theology 13 (1991): 23–37.
Moir, Ian A. ‘Fam. 272: A New Family of Manuscripts in the “Pericope
Adulterae” (John 7,53–8,11)?’ Pages 170–176 in Text and Testimony: Essays on New Testament and Apocryphal Literature in Honour of A.F.J. Klijn. Edited by T. Baarda, A. Hilhorst, G.P. Luttikhuizen, and A.S. van der Woude. Kampen: Uitgeversmaatschappij J.H. Kok, 1988.
Neyrey, Jerome H. ‘Jesus the Judge: Forensic Process in John 8,21–59.’ Biblica 68 (1987): 509–542.
Gail R. O’Day, ‘John 7:53–8:11: A Study in Misreading,’ JBL 111.4 (1992): 635.
O’Loughlin, Thomas. ‘A Woman’s Plight and the Western Fathers.’ Pages 83–104 in Ciphers in the Sand: Interpretations of the Woman Taken in Adultery (John 7.53–8.11). Edited by Larry J. Kreitzer and Deborah W. Rooke. Biblical Seminar 74. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.
Osborne, Robert. ‘Pericope Adulterae.’ Canadian Journal of Theology 12.4 (1966): 281–283.
Patterson, Stephen J. ‘Orphan Sayings and Stories.’ Pages 447–455 in The
Complete Gospels. Edited by Robert J. Miller. Santa Rosa: Polebridge, 1994.
Petersen, William L. ‘MΥΔΕ ΕΓΩ ΣΕ [ΚΑΤΑ]ΚΡΙΝΩ. John 8:11, the Protevangelium Iacobi, and the History of the Pericope Adulterae.’ Pages 191–221 in Sayings of Jesus: Canonical and Non-Canonical: Essays in Honour of Tjitze Baarda. Edited by William L. Petersen, Johan S. Vos, and Henk J. de Jonge. Leiden: Brill, 1997.
Power, E. ‘Writing on the Ground (John 8, 6. 8).’ Biblica 2 (1921): 54–57.
Riesenfeld, Harald. ‘The Pericope de adultera in the Early Christian Tradition.’ Pages 95–110 in his The Gospel Tradition: Essays by Harald Riesenfeld. Translated by E. Margaret Rowley and Robert A. Kraft. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1970.
Rius-Camps, Josep. ‘The Pericope of the Adulteress Reconsidered: The Nomadic Misfortunes of a Bold Pericope.’ New Testament Studies 53.3 (2007): 379–405.
Robinson, Maurice A. ‘Preliminary Observations Regarding the Pericope Adulterae Based upon Fresh Collations of Nearly All Continuous-Text Manuscripts and All Lectionary Manuscripts Containing the Passage.’ Filología Nestestamentaria 13 (2000): 35–59.
Rooke, Deborah W. ‘Wayward Women and Broken Promises.’ Pages 17–52 in Ciphers in the Sand: Interpretations of the Woman Taken in Adultery (John 7.53–8.11). Edited by Larry J. Kreitzer and Deborah W. Rooke. Biblical Seminar 74. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.
Sanders, James A. ‘“Nor Do I . . . ”: A Canonical Reading of the Challenge
to Jesus in John 8.’ Pages 337–347 in The Conversation Continues: Studies in Honor of J. Louis Martyn. Edited by Robert T. Fortna and Beverly R. Gaventa. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990.
Schilling, Frederick A. ‘The Story of Jesus and the Adulteress.’ Anglican Theological Review 37 (1955): 91–106.
Schöndorf, Harald. ‘Jesus schreibt mit dem Finger auf die Erde: Joh 8,6b.8.’ Biblische Zeitschrift 40.1 (1996): 91–93.
Scott, J. Martin C. ‘On the Trail of a Good Story: John 7.53–8.11 in the Gospel Tradition.’ Pages 53–82 in Ciphers in the Sand: Interpretations of the Woman Taken in Adultery (John 7.53–8.11). Edited by Larry J. Kreitzer and Deborah W. Rooke. Biblical Seminar 74. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.
Staley, Jeffrey A. ‘Reading “This Woman” Back into John 7:1–8:59: Liar Liar and the “Pericope Adulterae” in Intertextual Tango.’ Pages 85–107 in Those Outside: Noncanonical Readings of the Canonical Gospels. Edited by George Aichele and Richard Walsh. London: T & T Clark, 2005.
Trites, Allison A. ‘The Woman Taken in Adultery.’ Bibliotheca Sacra 131 (1974): 137–146.
Wallace, Daniel B. ‘Reconsidering “The Story of the Adulteress Reconsidered.”’ New Testament Studies 39 (1993): 290–296.
Watson, Alan. ‘Jesus and the Adulteress.’ Biblica 80.1 (1999): 100–108.
Wikgren, Allen. ‘The Lectionary Text of the Pericope, John 8:1–11.’ Journal of Biblical Literature 53 (1934): 188–198.
Young, Brad H. ‘“Save the Adulteress”: Ancient Jewish Responsa in the Gospels?’ New Testament Studies 41 (1995): 59–70.
