Corpus-Paul

[yonder moynihan gillihan <ymgillih AT midway.uchicago.edu>]

Dear Chris,
Opinion is divided regarding the relationship between the Clementine
Homilies, their sitz im leben, and sources.  As you probably know the
assumed locale is Syria, with a proposed date of about 220 ce; whether the
author had available the hypothetical Kerygmata Petrou or an earlier
recension of the Anabathmoi Iakobou is impossible to know.  Presumably
connection with these, if demonstrated, might confirm connection within  the
"Jewish wing" of early Christianity, but such an entity need not have been
the "Jerusalem Church".  The strongest evidence linking the homilies to
early Jewish Christianity is their seemingly anti-Pauline bent, but as F.
Stanley Jones suggests this evidences the influence of "Syrian Jewish
Christianity", and not necessarily that of Jerusalem at all. Others may,
however, know far more I on the subject.
Yonder Gillihan
University of Chicago