Last year I presented
first ideas of a retrospective historiography, tested in several case studies
from early Christianity, a project which is now in press at Cambridge
University Press, and in a further Werkstattbericht I have laid out the
foundations of this kind of historiography.
In a book, commissioned by Herderverlag, Freiburg
i.Br., I am now writing a retrospective history of the various constructions of
the beginnings of Christianity, as we can find them in the formative writers
from the fifth century back to the first century by equally showing, what
contemporary writing of the beginning of Christianity has embodied from these
constructions. As a result, one will discover that much of what we teach today
goes back to these constructions, and, that beyond the constructions of the
late to mid-second century we can hardly go.
In the introduction I am giving the rationale for
the project and develop in the first chapter the construction of the first formative
author, chosen, here, namely Orosius, a student of Augustine.
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